肉身翻牆

Chinese

	flesh body; physical body; corporeal body	to scale a wall
trad. (肉身翻牆)	肉身	翻牆
simp. (肉身翻墙)	肉身	翻墙
Literally: “to bypass the Great Firewall of China physically”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ròushēn fānqiáng

(Zhuyin): ㄖㄡˋ ㄕㄣㄈㄢㄑㄧㄤˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ròushēn fānqiáng
  - Zhuyin: ㄖㄡˋ ㄕㄣㄈㄢㄑㄧㄤˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ròushen fanciáng
  - Wade–Giles: jou⁴-shên¹ fan¹-chʻiang²
  - Yale: ròu-shēn fān-chyáng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rowshen fanchyang
  - Palladius: жоушэнь фаньцян (žoušɛnʹ fanʹcjan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐoʊ̯⁵¹ ʂən⁵⁵ fän⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ³⁵/

Verb

肉身翻牆

(neologism, slang) to relocate outside mainland China, e.g. having emigrated overseas
(humorous, by surface reanalysis) to climb over a wall
- Samhero (2024 December 4) “尹锡悦式戒严：韩国历史上最大的政治笑话 [Yoon Suk-yeol's Martial Law: The Biggest Political Joke in Korean History]”, in IN朝鲜‎^[1] (overall work in Chinese), archived from the original on 2024-12-4
  在尹熙悦宣布戒严令后的不到四个小时，韩国在野党议员就纷纷通过肉身翻墙、强冲议场等形式冲进国会通过了要求结束戒严令的决议——根据韩国宪法规定，国会要求解严时，尹熙悦不应拒绝。 [MSC, simp.]
  在尹熙悅宣布戒嚴令後的不到四個小時，韓國在野黨議員就紛紛通過肉身翻牆、強沖議場等形式沖進國會通過了要求結束戒嚴令的決議——根據韓國憲法規定，國會要求解嚴時，尹熙悅不應拒絕。 [MSC, trad.]
  Zài Yǐn Xīyuè xuānbù jièyánlìng hòu de bùdào sì ge xiǎoshí, Hánguó zàiyědǎng yìyuán jiù fēnfēn tōngguò ròushēnfānqiáng, qiáng chōng yìchǎng děng xíngshì chōngjìn guóhuì tōngguò le yāoqiú jiéshù jièyánlìng de juéyì — gēnjù Hánguó xiànfǎ guīdìng, guóhuì yāoqiú jiěyán shí, Yǐn Xīyuè bùyīng jùjué. [Pinyin]
  Less than four hours after Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, opposition lawmakers in South Korea stormed into the National Assembly through physical efforts like climbing walls and forcing their way into the chamber. They unanimously passed a resolution demanding the end of martial law. According to the Constitution, the president may not reject it.

Synonyms

肉翻