滾瓜爛熟

Chinese

		to boil; to roll	melon; claw; gourd melon; claw; gourd; squash	rotten; decayed; well-cooked rotten; decayed; well-cooked; mushy; broken; bad; to decay; completely	familiar; skilled; ripe familiar; skilled; ripe; done; cooked
trad. (滾瓜爛熟)		滾	瓜	爛	熟
simp. (滚瓜烂熟)		滚	瓜	烂	熟
Literally: “ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǔnguālànshú, gǔnguālànshóu

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄣˇ ㄍㄨㄚ ㄌㄢˋ ㄕㄨˊ, ㄍㄨㄣˇ ㄍㄨㄚ ㄌㄢˋ ㄕㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwan² gwaa¹ laan⁶ suk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, literary; standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǔnguālànshú
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄣˇ ㄍㄨㄚ ㄌㄢˋ ㄕㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǔngualànshú
    • Wade–Giles: kun³-kua¹-lan⁴-shu²
    • Yale: gwǔn-gwā-làn-shú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goengualannshwu
    • Palladius: гуньгуаланьшу (gunʹgualanʹšu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ən²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯ä⁵⁵ län⁵¹ ʂu³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, colloquial; standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǔnguālànshóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄣˇ ㄍㄨㄚ ㄌㄢˋ ㄕㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǔngualànshóu
    • Wade–Giles: kun³-kua¹-lan⁴-shou²
    • Yale: gwǔn-gwā-làn-shóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goengualannshour
    • Palladius: гуньгуаланьшоу (gunʹgualanʹšou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ən²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯ä⁵⁵ län⁵¹ ʂoʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwan² gwaa¹ laan⁶ suk⁶
    • Yale: gwán gwā laahn suhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwan² gwaa¹ laan⁶ suk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: guen² gua¹ lan⁶ sug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐn³⁵ kʷaː⁵⁵ laːn²² sʊk̚²/

Idiom

滾瓜爛熟

1. (to know something) by heart; (recite, etc.) fluently