壞事

Chinese

		bad; evil; rotten bad; evil; rotten; spoiled	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
trad. (壞事)		壞	事
simp. (坏事)		坏	事

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huàishì

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄞˋ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waai⁶ si⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fái-sṳ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huàishì
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄞˋ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huàishìh
    • Wade–Giles: huai⁴-shih⁴
    • Yale: hwài-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huayshyh
    • Palladius: хуайши (xuajši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯aɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huàishìr
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄞˋ ㄕˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huàishìhr
    • Wade–Giles: huai⁴-shih⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: hwài-shìr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huayshell
    • Palladius: хуайшир (xuajšir)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯aɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩ɻ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waai⁶ si⁶
    • Yale: waaih sih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waai⁶ si⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wai⁶ xi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːi̯²² siː²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fái-sṳ
    • Hakka Romanization System: fai^ˋ sii
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fai³ si⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fai̯³¹ sɨ⁵⁵/

Noun

壞事

1. bad thing; evil deed

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 歹代, 䆀代

Antonyms

• 好事 (hǎoshì)
• (Min Nan) 好代

Derived terms

• 好事不出門，壞事傳千里／好事不出门，坏事传千里 (hǎoshì bù chūmén, huàishì chuán qiānlǐ)

 

Verb

壞事

1. to ruin things; to make things worse