窮鄉僻壤

Chinese

		remote village; backwater	out-of-the-way places; backwater
trad. (窮鄉僻壤)		窮鄉	僻壤
simp. (穷乡僻壤)		穷乡	僻壤

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qióngxiāngpìrǎng

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄤ ㄆㄧˋ ㄖㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kung⁴ hoeng¹ pik¹ joeng⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qióngxiāngpìrǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄤ ㄆㄧˋ ㄖㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyóngsiangpìrǎng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻiung²-hsiang¹-pʻi⁴-jang³
    • Yale: chyúng-syāng-pì-rǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyongshiangpihraang
    • Palladius: цюнсянпижан (cjunsjanpižan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ʊŋ³⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ pʰi⁵¹ ʐɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kung⁴ hoeng¹ pik¹ joeng⁶
    • Yale: kùhng hēung pīk yeuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kung⁴ hoeng¹ pik⁷ joeng⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: kung⁴ hêng¹ pig¹ yêng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ²¹ hœːŋ⁵⁵ pʰɪk̚⁵ jœːŋ²²/

Idiom

窮鄉僻壤

1. remote and backward places

   • 開一萬個法政學校，能不能在這樣短時間內普及政治教育於窮鄉僻壤的男女老少，像現在農會所做的政治教育一樣呢？我想不能吧。 [MSC, trad.]
     开一万个法政学校，能不能在这样短时间内普及政治教育于穷乡僻壤的男女老少，像现在农会所做的政治教育一样呢？我想不能吧。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Kāi yīwàn gè fǎzhèng xuéxiào, néng bù néng zài zhèyàng duǎnshíjiān nèi pǔjí zhèngzhì jiàoyù yú qióngxiāngpìrǎng de nánnǚlǎoshào, xiàng xiànzài nónghuì suǒ zuò de zhèngzhì jiàoyù yīyàng ne? Wǒ xiǎng bùnéng ba. [Pinyin]

     Even if ten thousand schools of law and political science had been opened, could they have brought as much political education to the people, men and women, young and old, all the way into the remotest corners of the countryside, as the peasant associations have done in so short a time? I don't think they could.

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 掩街僻巷