幸災樂禍

lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune / Schadenfreude

Characters and words in 幸災樂禍

trusted / intimate / (of the emperor) to visit / variant of 幸[xing4]

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a fortune cookie.

Marie Curie (xi) got a job as the host in a game show in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). Her guest is a crocodile with mean eyes (丷), and the crocodile has to choose one of three doors. He chooses one door, and Marie opens another one, behind which is just a pile of dirt (土). The whole audience then tells him to change his decision to increase his chance of winning to 50%, but he doesn't. Marie Curie then opens his doors and luckily (幸) it was the right one: behind it is the fortune cookie (幸). The crocodile's prize is a bag of dried fruits (干).
surname Xing

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a fortune cookie.

Marie Curie (xi) got a job as the host in a game show in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). Her guest is a crocodile with mean eyes (丷), and the crocodile has to choose one of three doors. He chooses one door, and Marie opens another one, behind which is just a pile of dirt (土). The whole audience then tells him to change his decision to increase his chance of winning to 50%, but he doesn't. Marie Curie then opens his doors and luckily (幸) it was the right one: behind it is the fortune cookie (幸). The crocodile's prize is a bag of dried fruits (干).
fortunate / lucky

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a fortune cookie.

Marie Curie (xi) got a job as the host in a game show in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4). Her guest is a crocodile with mean eyes (丷), and the crocodile has to choose one of three doors. He chooses one door, and Marie opens another one, behind which is just a pile of dirt (土). The whole audience then tells him to change his decision to increase his chance of winning to 50%, but he doesn't. Marie Curie then opens his doors and luckily (幸) it was the right one: behind it is the fortune cookie (幸). The crocodile's prize is a bag of dried fruits (干).
disaster / calamity

= + : Zorro (z) just earned his PhD and is celebrating it with a bonfire (火) in front of the airplane (ai1), but then he accidentally drops his graduation cap (宀) and his certificate into the fire! What a disaster (灾)!
surname Le

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a cheerleader

= + : In the elevator's bathroom, the cheerleader is beating Lancelot on the head with a banana tree just when Lancelot isn't watching, and laughing at him cheerfully. The cheerleader sneaked up on Lancelot by popping out of a sewage pipe.
surname Yue
happy / cheerful / to laugh

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a cheerleader

= + : In the elevator's bathroom, the cheerleader is beating Lancelot on the head with a banana tree just when Lancelot isn't watching, and laughing at him cheerfully. The cheerleader sneaked up on Lancelot by popping out of a sewage pipe.
music
disaster / misfortune / calamity

= + : Helga Horse (hu) tries on her new monk's cowl (礻) in the observatory's bathroom (o4), but she soon realizes a disaster (祸): in her monk's cowl, her breasts look lopsided (呙).

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