借屍還魂

Chinese

		to lend; to borrow; excuse to lend; to borrow; excuse; pretext; by means of	corpse	to return from the dead; to revive after death; to recycle to return from the dead; to revive after death; to recycle; to be reprocessed
trad. (借屍還魂)		借	屍	還魂
simp. (借尸还魂)		借	尸	还魂
Literally: “reincarnated in someone else's body”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jièshīhuánhún

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄕ ㄏㄨㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ze³ si¹ waan⁴ wan⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chioh-si-hoân-hûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jièshīhuánhún
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄕ ㄏㄨㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jièshihhuánhún
    • Wade–Giles: chieh⁴-shih¹-huan²-hun²
    • Yale: jyè-shr̄-hwán-hwún
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiehshyhwanhwen
    • Palladius: цзешихуаньхунь (czešixuanʹxunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹ ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ xu̯än³⁵ xu̯ən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ze³ si¹ waan⁴ wan⁴
    • Yale: je sī wàahn wàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dze³ si¹ waan⁴ wan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: zé³ xi¹ wan⁴ wen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛː³³ siː⁵⁵ waːn²¹ wɐn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chioh-si-hoân-hûn
    • Tâi-lô: tsioh-si-huân-hûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cioihsi'hoanhuun
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sio(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ si⁴⁴ huan²⁴⁻¹¹ hun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɤ(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ si⁴⁴ huan²³⁻³³ hun²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sio(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ si⁴⁴ huan²⁴⁻²² hun²⁴/

Idiom

借屍還魂

1. (figurative) a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise