坎坷多舛

Traditional form:

坎坷多舛

Pinyin (reading):

kǎnkěduōchuǎn

Definitions:

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

Characters:

• 坎 - pit, hole; to trap, to snare; crisis
• 坷 - uneven, bumpy; a clod of earth; a lump of soil
• 多 - much, many, multi-; more than, over
• 舛 - mistaken; to be contrary; to deviate

Traditional characters:

• 坎 - pit, hole; to trap, to snare; crisis
• 坷 - uneven, bumpy; a clod of earth; a lump of soil
• 多 - much, many, multi-; more than, over
• 舛 - mistaken; to be contrary; to deviate