凶多吉少
Appearance
Chinese
[edit]fierce; terrible; ominous | many; much; a lot of many; much; a lot of; numerous; multi- |
lucky; Jilin Province (abbrev.) | young; few; little young; few; little; lack | ||
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trad. (凶多吉少/兇多吉少) | 凶/兇 | 多 | 吉 | 少 | |
simp. (凶多吉少) | 凶 | 多 | 吉 | 少 |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄥ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄐㄧˊ ㄕㄠˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: syongduojíshǎo
- Wade–Giles: hsiung1-to1-chi2-shao3
- Yale: syūng-dwō-jí-shǎu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiongduojyishao
- Palladius: сюндоцзишао (sjundoczišao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕi̯ʊŋ⁵⁵ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi³⁵ ʂɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: hung1 do1 gat1 siu2
- Yale: hūng dō gāt síu
- Cantonese Pinyin: hung1 do1 gat7 siu2
- Guangdong Romanization: hung1 do1 ged1 xiu2
- Sinological IPA (key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ tɔː⁵⁵ kɐt̚⁵ siːu̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Idiom
[edit]凶多吉少
- to be more ominous than propitious; fraught with grim possibilities