bĩ
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Unlucky, unfortunate: Describes a state of bad luck, misfortune, or a difficult, stagnant period.
- Stagnant, blocked: Can describe a situation that is at a standstill or has no way out.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- Anh ấy đang trải qua một thời kỳ bĩ. (He is going through an unlucky period.)
- Vận bĩ rồi cũng sẽ qua. (A streak of bad luck will eventually pass.)
- Công việc kinh doanh đang rất bĩ. (The business is in a very stagnant state.)
Advanced Usage
- "bĩ cực thái lai": This is a fixed idiom meaning "after extreme adversity comes prosperity" or "after a storm comes a calm." It expresses the philosophical idea that bad luck cannot last forever and good times will follow.
- Đừng nản lòng, bĩ cực thái lai mà. (Don't be discouraged, remember, after hardship comes good fortune.)
Variants and Related Words
- Bĩ vận (n): A period of bad luck, misfortune.
- Hy vọng bĩ vận của công ty sớm kết thúc. (Hopefully the company's period of misfortune will end soon.)
- Bĩ ngạn (n, literary): The "shore" of misfortune; a state of being stuck in difficulty.
Synonyms
- Đen đủi: Unlucky, jinxed.
- Rủi ro: Risky, unfortunate.
- Xui xẻo: Unlucky (more colloquial).
- Trì trệ: Stagnant, sluggish (for the "stagnant" meaning).
Antonyms
- Hanh thông: Smooth, favorable, unobstructed.
- May mắn: Lucky, fortunate.
- Suy thông (literary): To pass through smoothly (opposite of stagnation).
adj
- Unlucky, unfortunate
- vận bĩill luck
- bĩ cực thái laiafter a storm comes a calm; after black clouds, clear weather