殘缺不全

Chinese

		to be damaged; to be worn; to be torn to be damaged; to be worn; to be torn; damaged; defective; fallible; incomplete; fragmentary	incomplete; partial; imperfect incomplete; partial; imperfect; incompletely; not all
trad. (殘缺不全)		殘缺	不全
simp. (残缺不全)		残缺	不全

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cánquēbùquán

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄢˊ ㄑㄩㄝ ㄅㄨˋ ㄑㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caan⁴ kyut³ bat¹ cyun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cánquēbùquán
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄢˊ ㄑㄩㄝ ㄅㄨˋ ㄑㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cáncyuebùcyuán
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻan²-chʻüeh¹-pu⁴-chʻüan²
    • Yale: tsán-chywē-bù-chywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsarnchiuebuchyuan
    • Palladius: цаньцюэбуцюань (canʹcjuebucjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän³⁵ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛ⁵⁵ pu⁵¹ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: caan⁴ kyut³ bat¹ cyun⁴
    • Yale: chàahn kyut bāt chyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaan⁴ kyt⁸ bat⁷ tsyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: can⁴ küd³ bed¹ qun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːn²¹ kʰyːt̚³ pɐt̚⁵ t͡sʰyːn²¹/

Idiom

殘缺不全

1. incomplete; fragmentary

   • 這些特點是事實上存在的，不是虛造騙人的；是戰爭的全部基本要素，不是殘缺不全的片段；是貫徹於雙方一切大小問題和一切作戰階段之中的，不是可有可無的。 [MSC, trad.]
     这些特点是事实上存在的，不是虚造骗人的；是战争的全部基本要素，不是残缺不全的片段；是贯彻于双方一切大小问题和一切作战阶段之中的，不是可有可无的。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Zhèxiē tèdiǎn shì shìshíshàng cúnzài de, bù shì xūzào piànrén de; shì zhànzhēng de quánbù jīběn yàosù, bù shì cánquēbùquán de piànduàn; shì guànchè yú shuāngfāng yīqiè dàxiǎo wèntí hé yīqiè zuòzhàn jiēduàn zhīzhōng de, bù shì kěyǒukěwú de. [Pinyin]

     These characteristics exist objectively and are not invented to deceive people; they constitute all the basic elements of the war, and are not incomplete fragments; they permeate all major and minor problems on both sides and all stages of the war, and they are not matters of no consequence.