厚顏無恥

See also: 厚顔無耻, and 厚颜无耻

Chinese

		shameless	shameless; brazen; impudent
trad. (厚顏無恥/厚顏無耻)		厚顏	無恥/無耻
simp. (厚颜无耻)		厚颜	无耻

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hòuyánwúchǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄡˋ ㄧㄢˊ ㄨˊ ㄔˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hau⁵ ngaan⁴ mou⁴ ci²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hòuyánwúchǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄡˋ ㄧㄢˊ ㄨˊ ㄔˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hòuyánwúchǐh
    • Wade–Giles: hou⁴-yen²-wu²-chʻih³
    • Yale: hòu-yán-wú-chř
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: howyanwuchyy
    • Palladius: хоуяньучи (xoujanʹuči)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xoʊ̯⁵¹ jɛn³⁵ u³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hau⁵ ngaan⁴ mou⁴ ci²
    • Yale: háuh ngàahn mòuh chí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hau⁵ ngaan⁴ mou⁴ tsi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: heo⁵ ngan⁴ mou⁴ qi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐu̯¹³ ŋaːn²¹ mou̯²¹ t͡sʰiː³⁵/

Idiom

厚顏無恥

1. utterly shameless
   • 1994, China Central Television, “收姜維” (40:00 from the start), in Romance of the Three Kingdoms‎^[1], episode 69, spoken by Zhuge Liang (Tang Guoqiang):

     一條斷脊之犬，還敢在我軍陣前狺狺狂吠！我從未見過有如此厚顏無恥之人！ [MSC, trad.]
     一条断脊之犬，还敢在我军阵前狺狺狂吠！我从未见过有如此厚颜无耻之人！ [MSC, simp.]

     Yī tiáo duàn jǐ zhī quǎn, hái gǎn zài wǒ jūn zhèn qián yínyín kuáng fèi! Wǒ cóngwèi jiàn guò yǒu rúcǐ hòuyánwúchǐ zhī rén! [Pinyin]

     How dare you backless dog is still barking in front of our army! I have never met such a shameless person like you!