拍烏蠅
Chinese
[edit]to clap; to pat; to beat to clap; to pat; to beat; to hit; to slap; to take (a picture) |
housefly | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (拍烏蠅) | 拍 | 烏蠅 | |
| simp. (拍乌蝇) | 拍 | 乌蝇 | |
| anagram | 烏蠅拍／乌蝇拍 | ||
Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: paak3 wu1 jing4-1
- Yale: paak wū yīng
- Cantonese Pinyin: paak8 wu1 jing4-1
- Guangdong Romanization: pag3 wu1 ying4-1
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰaːk̚³ wuː⁵⁵ jɪŋ²¹⁻⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
[edit]拍⫽烏蠅 (verb-object) (Cantonese)
- (literally) to swat flies (with a flyswatter)
- (figurative, of business, traffic, etc.) to be slack (to the extent that clerks can only swat flies in the shop); to be sluggish; to be quiet