Definition
噩运 is a less common variant of 厄运 (è yùn), both meaning 'misfortune' or 'bad luck.' You can use them interchangeably in most contexts, but 厄运 is more standard in modern Chinese. 噩运 sometimes carries a slightly stronger sense of being doomed or ill-fated.
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misfortunebad luck
Examples
- 噩运。Tā xīwàng zìjǐ néng bǎituō è yùn de jiūchán.He hopes to shake off the entanglement of bad luck.
- 噩运。Jiēlián de è yùn ràng tā yì jué bú zhèn.One misfortune after another left him unable to recover.
- 噩运。Zhè chǎng chēhuò shì yì chǎng jùdà de è yùn.This car accident was a huge misfortune.
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