苦命

kǔmìng
  1. hard lot
  2. bitter fate
  3. unfortunate

CEDICT

cruel fate

Wiktionary

形容命運乖舛，不順利。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 苦 kǔ
  1. bitter
  2. hardship
  3. pain
  4. to suffer
  5. to bring suffering to
  6. painstakingly
2 命 mìng
  1. life
  2. fate
  3. order or command
  4. to assign a name, title etc

Related entries

不幸 bùxìng
  1. misfortune
  2. adversity
  3. unfortunate
  4. sad
  5. unfortunately

classifier: 個

他死得不幸福。

He didn't die happily.

Source: Tatoeba

蹇 jiǎn
  1. lame
  2. cripple
  3. unfortunate
  4. slow
  5. difficult
  6. nag (inferior horse)
  7. donkey
  8. lame horse