收兵

Chinese

		to receive; to accept; to collect to receive; to accept; to collect; in care of (used on address line after name)	soldiers; a force; an army soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike
simp. and trad. (收兵)		收	兵

Etymology

“to attract members of the opposite sex”

Based on 觀音兵 / 观音兵 (gun¹ jam¹ bing¹).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shōubīng

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄡ ㄅㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau¹ bing¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sû-pîn
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siu-peng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shōubīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄡ ㄅㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shoubing
    • Wade–Giles: shou¹-ping¹
    • Yale: shōu-bīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoubing
    • Palladius: шоубин (šoubin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵ piŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sau¹ bing¹
    • Yale: sāu bīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau¹ bing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo¹ bing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯⁵⁵ pɪŋ⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sû-pîn
    • Hakka Romanization System: su^ˊ bin^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: su¹ bin¹
    • Sinological IPA: /su²⁴⁻¹¹ pin²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siu-peng
    • Tâi-lô: siu-ping
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siu'pefng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siu⁴⁴⁻²² piɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siu³³ piɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siu⁴⁴⁻²² piɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siu⁴⁴⁻³³ piɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siu⁴⁴⁻³³ piɪŋ⁴⁴/

Verb

收兵

1. (literary) to retreat (an army); to withdraw one’s forces
2. (figurative) to wind up; to conclude; to bring to a close
3. (Hong Kong, slang, neologism) to attract members of the opposite sex so that they would do anything to pursue you

Synonyms

• (to wind up):

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• 了卻 / 了却 (liǎoquè)
• 了斷 / 了断 (liǎoduàn)
• 了結 / 了结 (liǎojié)
• 交代 (jiāodài) (humorous)
• 告終 / 告终 (gàozhōng)
• 完了 (wánliǎo)
• 完畢 / 完毕 (wánbì)
• 完結 / 完结 (wánjié)
• 收場 / 收场 (shōuchǎng)
• 收束 (shōushù)
• 煞 (Hokkien)
• 煞事 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 終 / 终 (zhōng) (literary, or in compounds)
• 結 / 结
• 結束 / 结束 (jiéshù)
• 結絕 / 结绝 (jiéjué) (literary)
• 結腳 / 结脚 (jie² juo²) (Sichuanese)
• 罷 / 罢