大謬不然

Chinese

		great; gross	wrong; to err	not	true; correct
trad. (大謬不然)		大	謬	不	然
simp. (大谬不然)		大	谬	不	然

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàmiùbùrán

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄇㄧㄡˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄢˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàmiùbùrán
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄇㄧㄡˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàmiòubùrán
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-miu⁴-pu⁴-jan²
    • Yale: dà-myòu-bù-rán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahmiowburan
    • Palladius: дамюбужань (damjubužanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹⁻⁵³ mi̯oʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ pu⁵¹ ʐän³⁵/

Idiom

大謬不然

1. (chiefly literary) to be utterly wrong; to be grossly mistaken

   • 而事乃有大謬不然者。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     而事乃有大谬不然者。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1st century BCE. Sima Qian, Letter to Ren An. Translated by Burton Watson.

     Ér shì nǎi yǒu dàmiù bùrán zhě. [Pinyin]

     But, quite contrary to my hopes, things came to a terrible misunderstanding.