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坎坷多舛

Mandarin · pinyin kǎn kě duō chuǎn

full of trouble and misfortune (usu. referring to someone's life)

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坎: kǎn · pit, hole; snare, trap; crisis; trigram ☵; hexagram ䷜
坷: kě · clod of earth, lump of soil
多: duō · much, many; more than, over
舛: chuǎn · oppose, deviate, be contrary to; Kangxi radical 136

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3–3–1–3 · kan3 ke3 duo1 chuan3

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