川流不息

Chinese

			to not stop; to be ceaseless
trad. (川流不息)		川流	不息
simp. ^#(川流不息)		川流	不息

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chuānliúbùxī, chuānliúbùxí

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄢㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧ, ㄔㄨㄢㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun¹ lau⁴ bat¹ sik¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chhoan-liû-put-sek

(Teochew, Peng'im): cuang¹ liu⁵ bug⁴ sêg⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chuānliúbùxī
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chuanlióubùsi
  - Wade–Giles: chʻuan¹-liu²-pu⁴-hsi¹
  - Yale: chwān-lyóu-bù-syī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuanlioubushi
  - Palladius: чуаньлюбуси (čuanʹljubusi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵ li̯oʊ̯³⁵ pu⁵¹ ɕi⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chuānliúbùxí
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chuanlióubùsí
  - Wade–Giles: chʻuan¹-liu²-pu⁴-hsi²
  - Yale: chwān-lyóu-bù-syí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuanlioubushyi
  - Palladius: чуаньлюбуси (čuanʹljubusi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵ li̯oʊ̯³⁵ pu⁵¹ ɕi³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: cyun¹ lau⁴ bat¹ sik¹
  - Yale: chyūn làuh bāt sīk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn¹ lau⁴ bat⁷ sik⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: qun¹ leo⁴ bed¹ xig¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵ lɐu̯²¹ pɐt̚⁵ sɪk̚⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoan-liû-put-sek
  - Tâi-lô: tshuan-liû-put-sik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhoanliu'putseg
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴⁻³³ liu²³⁻³³ put̚³²⁻⁴ siɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴⁻³³ liu²⁴⁻¹¹ put̚³²⁻⁴ siɪk̚³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: cuang¹ liu⁵ bug⁴ sêg⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshuang liû puk sek
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuaŋ³³⁻²³ liu⁵⁵⁻¹¹ puk̚²⁻⁴ sek̚²/

Idiom

川流不息

(usually of traffic) flowing past in an endless stream
- 2002, Xu Wei (lyrics and music), “時光 [shíguāng, Time]”, in 時光·漫步 [Time, Stroll], performed by Xu Wei:
  
  也許就在這一瞬間　你的笑容依然如晚霞般　在川流不息的時光中　神采飛揚 [MSC, trad.]
  也许就在这一瞬间　你的笑容依然如晚霞般　在川流不息的时光中　神采飞扬 [MSC, simp.]
  Yěxǔ jiù zài zhè yīshùnjiān, Nǐ de xiàoróng yīrán rú wǎnxiá bān, Zài chuānliúbùxī de shíguāng zhōng, Shéncǎifēiyáng [Pinyin]
  Perhaps just at this instant / Your smile was as bright as an afterglow / During the endless stream-like time

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