坎坷

kǎnkě
(of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes

CEDICT

Entry Composition

=1 坎 kǎn
  1. pit
  2. threshold
  3. one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦 bāguà, symbolizing water
  4. ☵
=1 坎 kǎn
  1. old variant of 坎 kǎn
  2. pit
  3. hole
2 坷 kě used in 坎坷 kǎnkě