- lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune
- Schadenfreude
Characters
- 幸 (倖): trusted; intimate; (of the emperor) to visit; variant of 幸[xing4]
- 灾 (災): disaster; calamity
- 乐 (樂): surname Le
- 祸 (旤): old variant of 禍|祸[huo4]
Resources
- Wiktionary: 幸灾乐祸
- MDBG: 幸灾乐祸
- Examples with 幸灾乐祸 on Tatoeba
Examples
“幸灾乐祸”一词只在德语中有。
幸灾乐祸是最大的乐事。