甚囂塵上

Chinese

		very; extremely; more (than) very; extremely; more (than); what	clamour	dust; dirt; earth	up; on; on top up; on; on top; upon; first; previous or last; upper; higher; above; previous; to climb; to go into; to go up
trad. (甚囂塵上)		甚	囂	塵	上
simp. (甚嚣尘上)		甚	嚣	尘	上
Literally: “clamor raises the dust”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shènxiāochénshàng

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄣˋ ㄒㄧㄠ ㄔㄣˊ ㄕㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sam⁶ hiu¹ can⁴ soeng⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shènxiāochénshàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄣˋ ㄒㄧㄠ ㄔㄣˊ ㄕㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shènsiaochénshàng
    • Wade–Giles: shên⁴-hsiao¹-chʻên²-shang⁴
    • Yale: shèn-syāu-chén-shàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shennshiauchernshanq
    • Palladius: шэньсяочэньшан (šɛnʹsjaočɛnʹšan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂən⁵¹ ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰən³⁵ ʂɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sam⁶ hiu¹ can⁴ soeng⁶
    • Yale: sahm hīu chàhn seuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sam⁶ hiu¹ tsan⁴ soeng⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sem⁶ hiu¹ cen⁴ sêng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐm²² hiːu̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰɐn²¹ sœːŋ²²/

Idiom

甚囂塵上

1. to be on everyone's lips

   • 但是近來的妥協空氣，反共聲浪，忽又甚囂塵上，又把全國人民打入悶葫蘆裡了。 [MSC, trad.]
     但是近来的妥协空气，反共声浪，忽又甚嚣尘上，又把全国人民打入闷葫芦里了。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1940, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《新民主主義論》 (On New Democracy), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Dànshì jìnlái de tuǒxié kōngqì, fǎngòng shēnglàng, hū yòu shènxiāochénshàng, yòu bǎ quánguó rénmín dǎrù mènhúlu lǐ le. [Pinyin]

     Of late, however, the dust and din of compromise and anti-communism have once again filled the air, and once again the people are thrown into bewilderment.