凶多吉少

Chinese

		fierce; terrible; ominous	many; much; a lot of many; much; a lot of; numerous; multi-	lucky; Jilin Province (abbrev.)	young; few; little young; few; little; lack
trad. (凶多吉少/兇多吉少)		凶/兇	多	吉	少
simp. (凶多吉少)		凶	多	吉	少

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiōngduōjíshǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄥ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄐㄧˊ ㄕㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hung¹ do¹ gat¹ siu²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiōngduōjíshǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄥ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄐㄧˊ ㄕㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syongduojíshǎo
    • Wade–Giles: hsiung¹-to¹-chi²-shao³
    • Yale: syūng-dwō-jí-shǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiongduojyishao
    • Palladius: сюндоцзишао (sjundoczišao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ʊŋ⁵⁵ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi³⁵ ʂɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hung¹ do¹ gat¹ siu²
    • Yale: hūng dō gāt síu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹ do¹ gat⁷ siu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: hung¹ do¹ ged¹ xiu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ tɔː⁵⁵ kɐt̚⁵ siːu̯³⁵/

Idiom

凶多吉少

1. to be more ominous than propitious; fraught with grim possibilities