紅杏出牆

Chinese

		red; revolutionary; prosperity red; revolutionary; prosperity; bonus; popular	apricot	to go out; to come out; to occur to go out; to come out; to occur; to produce; to go beyond; to rise; to put forth; to happen; (a measure word for dramas, plays, or operas)	wall
trad. (紅杏出牆)		紅	杏	出	牆
simp. (红杏出墙)		红	杏	出	墙

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hóngxìngchūqiáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄔㄨ ㄑㄧㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hung⁴ hang⁶ ceot¹ coeng⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hóngxìngchūqiáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄔㄨ ㄑㄧㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hóngsìngchuciáng
    • Wade–Giles: hung²-hsing⁴-chʻu¹-chʻiang²
    • Yale: húng-syìng-chū-chyáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: horngshinqchuchyang
    • Palladius: хунсинчуцян (xunsinčucjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xʊŋ³⁵ ɕiŋ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hung⁴ hang⁶ ceot¹ coeng⁴
    • Yale: hùhng hahng chēut chèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hung⁴ hang⁶ tsoet⁷ tsoeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: hung⁴ heng⁶ cêd¹ cêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ²¹ hɐŋ²² t͡sʰɵt̚⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹/

Idiom

紅杏出牆

1. (of a wife) to have an affair; to cheat on her husband

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 偷漢子 (“(of a woman) to take a lover; to cheat”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		偷漢子, 偷漢, 偷人, 紅杏出牆
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	偷人兒, 偷人
	Taiwan	偷漢子
	Harbin	偷漢子, 偷漢
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	偷人
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	偷人
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	偷人
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	偷人
Cantonese	Guangzhou	勾佬
	Hong Kong	勾佬
Gan	Nanchang	偷人
	Pingxiang	偷人
Southern Min	Xiamen	討契兄, 偷咬雞
	Jinjiang	討契兄
	Zhangzhou	討契兄
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	討契兄
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	討契兄
	Kaohsiung (Cijin)	討契兄
	Kaohsiung (Dalinpu, Siaogang)	討契兄
	Yilan (Toucheng)	討契兄
	Tainan	討契兄, 偷咬雞仔
	Tainan (Anping)	討契兄, 偷咬雞仔
	Penghu (Xiyu)	討契兄
Zhongshan Min	Sanxiang	勾佬
Wu	Shanghai	吃野食
	Danyang	偷人