红颜薄命

beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)

surname Hong

red / popular / revolutionary / bonus

a beautiful woman / young beauties / youths / rosy cheeks

surname Yan

color / face / countenance

Japanese variant of 顏|颜[yan2]

surname Bo

thin / cold in manner / indifferent / weak / light / infertile

meager / slight / weak / ungenerous or unkind / frivolous / to despise / to belittle / to look down on / to approach or near

see 薄荷[bo4 he5]

to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky

life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc