震耳欲聾
Appearance
Chinese
[edit]shake; shock; sign in trigram | ear | desire; longing; appetite desire; longing; appetite; wish |
deaf | ||
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trad. (震耳欲聾) | 震 | 耳 | 欲 | 聾 | |
simp. (震耳欲聋) | 震 | 耳 | 欲 | 聋 | |
Literally: “to shock the ear almost to the point of going deaf”. |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄓㄣˋ ㄦˇ ㄩˋ ㄌㄨㄥˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jhèn-ěryùlóng
- Wade–Giles: chên4-êrh3-yü4-lung2
- Yale: jèn-ěr-yù-lúng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jenneelyuhlong
- Palladius: чжэньэрюйлун (čžɛnʹerjujlun)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂən⁵¹ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹ y⁵¹ lʊŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: zan3 ji5 juk6 lung4
- Yale: jan yíh yuhk lùhng
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzan3 ji5 juk9 lung4
- Guangdong Romanization: zen3 yi5 yug6 lung4
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sɐn³³ jiː¹³ jʊk̚² lʊŋ²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Idiom
[edit]震耳欲聾
- (of sound) deafening; earsplitting