否极泰来
pǐ jí tài lái
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 否極泰來
When bad luck reaches its worst point, things start to turn good. A bookish way to comfort someone or to describe fortune finally changing.
Vận xấu đến tận cùng thì vận tốt sẽ tới. Là cách nói mang màu sách vở để an ủi, hoặc để tả lúc thời vận xoay chuyển.
Register: literary
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 061 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): etymology of “bĩ cực thái lai” = 否極泰來 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “bĩ cực thái lai” (bi-cuc-thai-lai). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “否极泰来” mean?
When bad luck reaches its worst point, things start to turn good. A bookish way to comfort someone or to describe fortune finally changing. Literally: misfortune at its limit, good fortune comes
Is “否极泰来” formal or informal?
否极泰来 is generally literary.