打理

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure
simp. and trad. (打理)		打	理

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎlǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): daa² lei⁵

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): a² lei⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎlǐ [Phonetic: dálǐ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄌㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎlǐ
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-li³
    • Yale: dǎ-lǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daalii
    • Palladius: дали (dali)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² lei⁵
    • Yale: dá léih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² lei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² léi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ lei̯¹³/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: a² lei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /a⁵⁵ lei²¹/

Verb

打理

1. to arrange; to handle
2. to run; to operate; to manage (a business, enterprise, etc.)
3. (Cantonese, obsolete in Hong Kong) to care; to concern oneself with
   • 1888, James Dyer Ball, Cantonese Made Easy, Hongkong: The 'China Mail' Office, page 14:

     佢唔肯嚟。唔打理佢肯唔肯。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

     keoi⁵ m⁴ hang² lai⁴. m⁴ daa² lei⁵ keoi⁵ hang² m⁴ hang². [Jyutping]

     He is unwilling to come. Never mind whether he is willing or not.

   • 1910, James Dyer Ball, edited by Immanuel Gottlieb Genæhr, A Chinese Dictionary in the Cantonese Dialect, revised and enlarged edition, Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, page 681:

     你有你，我有我，使乜你打理我呢 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

     nei⁵ jau⁵ nei⁵, ngo⁵ jau⁵ ngo⁵, sai² mat¹ nei⁵ daa² lei⁵ ngo⁵ ni¹ [Jyutping]

     Mind your own business, and let me mind my own, why should you trouble about me?

Synonyms

• (to arrange):

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• 備辦／备办 (Hokkien)
• 受理 (shòulǐ)
• 審理／审理 (shěnlǐ)
• 張羅／张罗
• 從事／从事 (cóngshì)
• 操持 (cāochí)
• 擺劃／摆划 (bǎihua) (regional)
• 料理 (liàolǐ)
• 清理 (qīnglǐ)
• 理 (lǐ)
• 經辦／经办 (jīngbàn)
• 處分／处分 (chǔfèn) (literary)
• 處決／处决 (chǔjué)
• 處理／处理
• 處置／处置 (chǔzhì)
• 辦理／办理 (bànlǐ)

 

• (to run):

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• 承辦／承办 (chéngbàn)
• 營運／营运 (yíngyùn)
• 經手／经手 (jīngshǒu)
• 經營／经营 (jīngyíng)
• 經管／经管 (jīngguǎn)
• 辦理／办理 (bànlǐ)
• 運作／运作 (yùnzuò)
• 過手／过手 (Hokkien)
• 運營／运营 (yùnyíng)