幸灾乐祸
Traditional form:
幸災樂禍
Pinyin (reading):
xìngzāilèhuò
Definitions:
- lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune
- Schadenfreude
Characters:
- 幸 - favor, fortune, luck; surname
- 灾 - disaster, catastrophe, calamity
- 乐 - cheerful, happy, laughing; music
- 祸 - misfortune, disaster, calamity
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