born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate); born under an unlucky star; ahead of his time
trad. 生不逢時
Also written 生不逢時【shēng bù féng shí】
Characters in this word
4生
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to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born, to arise; to occur, to light (a fire), to live; to be alive, life, raw; uncooked; unprocessed, unfamiliar; strange, (bound form) student; person engaged in a field, (bound form) male role in traditional opera, (bound form) life; lifetime, (bound form) means of livelihood, (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]), (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- Pinyin
- shēng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1196 of 2500
不
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no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
- Pinyin
- bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 9 of 2500
逢
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to meet by chance, to come across, (of a calendar event) to come along, (of an event) to fall on (a particular day), to fawn upon
- Pinyin
- féng
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 35062 of 2500
时
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old variant of 時|时[shi2]
- Pinyin
- shí
- Traditional
- 旹
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 224 of 2500