掃把星 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 扫把星 sàobǎxīng ㄙㄠˋ ㄅㄚˇ ㄒㄧㄥ comet person who brings bad luck jinx Character by character 掃(sào)a (large) broom 把(bǎ)marks the object before the verb 星(xīng)star A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0