Chinese word

转运

Pronunciation

Pinyinzhuǎn yùn

Meaning

  • verbturn one's luck around

Example

最近很倒霉，真希望能转运。zuì jìn hěn dǎo méi zhēn xī wàng néng zhuǎn yùn

I've had such bad luck lately; I really hope my luck turns around.

Illustration for 转运 (turn one's luck around)

More examples

换了工作后，他感觉自己终于转运了。huàn le gōng zuò hòu tā gǎn jué zì jǐ zhōng yú zhuǎn yùn le

After changing jobs, he felt that his luck had finally turned around.

Core concept

A shift redirects a moving course toward a new outcome, whether that outcome is better luck or a different destination for goods.

Common phrases

  • 开始转运kāi shǐ zhuǎn yùn

    start having better luck

  • 终于转运了zhōng yú zhuǎn yùn le

    finally have better luck

Similar words

走运zǒu yùn: Be lucky, especially through an unexpected stroke of good fortune.
时来运转shí lái yùn zhuǎn: Have luck turn around and circumstances improve after a long period of bad luck.
走好运zóu hǎo yùn: Become lucky when things happen to work out well by chance.

Definition in Chinese

使运气从不好变好，指运势好转；在书面或口语中也可指把物资或货物从一处转到另一处。shǐ yùn qì cóng bù hǎo biàn hǎo zhǐ yùn shì háo zhuǎn zài shū miàn huò kóu yǔ zhōng yě kě zhǐ bǎ wù zī huò huò wù cóng yí chù zhuǎn dào lìng yí chù

Word origin

转运 (zhuǎnyùn, "to turn and transport") joins 转 (zhuǎn, "change direction") with 运 (yùn, "transport"), applying the movement of things to both cargo and the changing course of fortune.

Usage tips

  • English speakers may hear the fortune sense as a deliberate act, but Chinese commonly uses it when hoping that circumstances will improve.

Other meanings

  • transferverb
  • a turn for the betternoun

Opposites

  • 走霉运zǒu méi yùnhave bad luckverb

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