DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

桃花運

简桃花运 · 繁桃花運

Mandarin · pinyin táo huā yùn

luck with the ladies
a romance
good luck

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

桃: táo · peach; marriage; surname
花: huā · flower; blossoms
運: Look up this written character
运: yùn · luck, fortune; ship, transport

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–1–4 · tao2 hua1 yun4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

3character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

桃花運 · find source passages ↗ · 桃花运 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense · 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

tou4 faa1 wan6

Cantonese word readings for 桃花運. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

noun

(figurative, especially of a man) luck in love affairs; luck in love

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack