烏鴉嘴

See also: 乌鸦嘴

Chinese

		crow; raven	mouth
trad. (烏鴉嘴)		烏鴉	嘴
simp. (乌鸦嘴)		乌鸦	嘴
Literally: “crow's beak”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): wūyāzuǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄨ ㄧㄚ ㄗㄨㄟˇ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): wu¹ ya¹ zui³

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu¹ aa¹ zeoi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wūyāzuǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨ ㄧㄚ ㄗㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wuyazuěi
    • Wade–Giles: wu¹-ya¹-tsui³
    • Yale: wū-yā-dzwěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uiatzoei
    • Palladius: уяцзуй (ujaczuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵⁵ jä⁵⁵ t͡su̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: wu¹ ya¹ zui³
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: ujazui
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /vu⁵⁵ ia⁵⁵ t͡suei⁵³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wu¹ aa¹ zeoi²
    • Yale: wū ā jéui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu¹ aa¹ dzoey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wu¹ a¹ zêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː⁵⁵ aː⁵⁵ t͡sɵy̯³⁵/

Noun

烏鴉嘴

1. (figurative) boring person who constantly caws about disasters; vocal pessimist; doomsayer; croaker; jinx

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 烏鴉嘴 (“vocal pessimist; doomsayer; croaker”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		烏鴉嘴
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	烏鴉嘴
	Singapore	烏鴉嘴
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	烏鴉嘴
Cantonese	Hong Kong	烏鴉口
Southern Min	Quanzhou	破喙
	Tainan	烏鴉喙
	Singapore (Hokkien)	臭喙