毒計

Chinese

		poison; narcotics	to calculate; to compute; to count to calculate; to compute; to count; reckon; ruse; to plan
trad. (毒計)		毒	計
simp. (毒计)		毒	计

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dújì

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˊ ㄐㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): duk⁶ gai³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): to̍k-kè

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dújì
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˊ ㄐㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dújì
    • Wade–Giles: tu²-chi⁴
    • Yale: dú-jì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwujih
    • Palladius: дуцзи (duczi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu³⁵ t͡ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: duk⁶ gai³
    • Yale: duhk gai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: duk⁹ gai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: dug⁶ gei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊk̚² kɐi̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: to̍k-kè
    • Tâi-lô: to̍k-kè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dogkex
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔk̚⁴⁻³² ke²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔk̚²⁴⁻² ke⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ ke²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔk̚⁴⁻³² ke¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔk̚⁴⁻³² ke²¹/

Noun

毒計

1. venomous scheme; deadly trap

   • 如果照了幹去，整個的抗戰要吃大虧，持久戰為之葬送，恰恰中了敵人的毒計，實在是下策。 [MSC, trad.]
     如果照了干去，整个的抗战要吃大亏，持久战为之葬送，恰恰中了敌人的毒计，实在是下策。 [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

     Rúguǒ zhào le gàn qu, zhěnggè de kàngzhàn yào chī dà kuī, chíjiǔzhàn wéi zhī zàngsòng, qiàqià zhòng le dírén de dújì, shízài shì xiàcè. [Pinyin]

     To do what they want would be to inflict incalculable damage on the entire war, spell finis to the protracted war, and land us in the enemy's deadly trap; actually, it would be the worst policy.