和理非

Chinese

		mix together; peace; harmony mix together; peace; harmony; and; with; union; cap (a poem); respond in singing; soft; warm	to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure	(be) not; wrong; blame (be) not; wrong; blame; Africa
trad. (和理非)		和	理	非
simp. #(和理非)		和	理	非

Etymology

Short for 和平、理性、非暴力 (“peaceful, rational and non-violent”). First used by Szeto Wah (1931–2011), in reference to the protestors in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hélǐfēi

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄌㄧˇ ㄈㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo⁴ lei⁵ fei¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hélǐfēi
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄌㄧˇ ㄈㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hélǐfei
    • Wade–Giles: ho²-li³-fei¹
    • Yale: hé-lǐ-fēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: herliifei
    • Palladius: хэлифэй (xɛlifɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹ feɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wo⁴ lei⁵ fei¹
    • Yale: wòh léih fēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo⁴ lei⁵ fei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wo⁴ léi⁵ féi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː²¹ lei̯¹³ fei̯⁵⁵/

Adjective

和理非

1. (Hong Kong, neologism) peaceful, rational and non-violent

Noun

和理非

1. (Hong Kong, neologism) the principle of peace, rationality and non-violence in protests
2. (Hong Kong, neologism) people who support peaceful, rational and non-violent protests

See also

• 和理非非 (hélǐfēifēi)