生不逢时 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 生不逢時 shēngbùféngshí ㄕㄥ ㄅㄨˋ ㄈㄥˊ ㄕˊ born at the wrong time (idiom) unlucky (esp. to complain about one's fate) born under an unlucky star ahead of his time Character by character 生(shēng)grow 不(bù)no 逢(féng)meet by chance 时(shí)surname Shi A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0