答非所問

Chinese

		reply; answer; return reply; answer; return; respond; echo; to answer; agree	(be) not; wrong; blame (be) not; wrong; blame; Africa	actually; place; (nominalization prefix)	to ask
trad. (答非所問)		答	非	所	問
simp. (答非所问)		答	非	所	问

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dáfēisuǒwèn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˊ ㄈㄟ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄨㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daap³ fei¹ so² man⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dáfēisuǒwèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˊ ㄈㄟ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄨㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dáfeisuǒwùn
    • Wade–Giles: ta²-fei¹-so³-wên⁴
    • Yale: dá-fēi-swǒ-wèn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: darfeisuoowenn
    • Palladius: дафэйсовэнь (dafɛjsovɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä³⁵ feɪ̯⁵⁵ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ wən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daap³ fei¹ so² man⁶
    • Yale: daap fēi só mahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daap⁸ fei¹ so² man⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: dab³ féi¹ so² men⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːp̚³ fei̯⁵⁵ sɔː³⁵ mɐn²²/

Idiom

答非所問

1. to give an irrelevant answer to a question