不見天日

Chinese

		not; no	to see; to meet; to appear to see; to meet; to appear; to interview	the sky and the sun; light; bright prospects
trad. (不見天日)		不	見	天日
simp. (不见天日)		不	见	天日
Literally: “not to see the sun nor the sky”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùjiàntiānrì

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄖˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ gin³ tin¹ jat⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùjiàntiānrì [Phonetic: bújiàntiānrì]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄖˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùjiàntianrìh
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-chien⁴-tʻien¹-jih⁴
    • Yale: bù-jyàn-tyān-r̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bujianntianryh
    • Palladius: буцзяньтяньжи (buczjanʹtjanʹži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ gin³ tin¹ jat⁶
    • Yale: bāt gin tīn yaht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ gin³ tin¹ jat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ gin³ tin¹ yed⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ kiːn³³ tʰiːn⁵⁵ jɐt̚²/

Idiom

不見天日

1. (figuratively) to live in a world of injustice
2. (figuratively) to keep something secret

   • 这样的书对于教育青年一代不是很好吗？我们不是提倡革命传统教育吗？竟然自行销毁，不见天日，实在可惜。 [MSC, simp.]
     這樣的書對於教育青年一代不是很好嗎？我們不是提倡革命傳統教育嗎？竟然自行銷毀，不見天日，實在可惜。 [MSC, trad.]

     From: 1979, 馬識途 (Ma Shitu),《〈清江壮歌〉后记》

     Zhèyàng de shū duìyú jiàoyù qīngnián yīdài bùshì hěn hǎo ma? Wǒmen bùshì tíchàng gémìng chuántǒng jiàoyù ma? Jìngrán zìxíng xiāohuǐ, bùjiàntiānrì, shízài kěxī. [Pinyin]

     Isn't such a book beneficial for educating the younger generation? Don't we advocate revolutionary tradition education? Yet it was destroyed and kept from public view—what a pity!

Synonyms

(to live in a world of injustice):

• 暗無天日／暗无天日 (ànwútiānrì)