豎儒

Chinese

		lowly, villainous	scholar; Confucian
trad. (豎儒)		豎	儒
simp. (竖儒)		竖	儒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shùrú

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˋ ㄖㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu⁶ jyu⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shùrú
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ ㄖㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shùrú
    • Wade–Giles: shu⁴-ju²
    • Yale: shù-rú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuhru
    • Palladius: шужу (šužu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵¹ ʐu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: syu⁶ jyu⁴
    • Yale: syuh yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy⁶ jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xu⁶ yu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /syː²² jyː²¹/

Noun

豎儒

1. (literary, derogatory) mediocre scholar

   • 漢王輟食吐哺，罵曰：「豎儒，幾敗而公事！」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     汉王辍食吐哺，骂曰：「竖儒，几败而公事！」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Hànwáng chuò shí tù bǔ, mà yuē: “Shùrú, jī bài ér gōng shì!” [Pinyin]

     The King of Han put down his meal and spat out the half-chewed food, and he cursed, "Knave of a scholar, you nearly ruined your master's plan!"

Pronoun

豎儒

1. (literary, humble, self-deprecatory) I