肝腸寸斷

Chinese

		liver and intestines; feeling; emotion	to be broken up into small pieces
trad. (肝腸寸斷)		肝腸	寸斷
simp. (肝肠寸断)		肝肠	寸断

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gānchángcùnduàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢ ㄔㄤˊ ㄘㄨㄣˋ ㄉㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gon¹ coeng⁴ cyun³ dyun⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gānchángcùnduàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢ ㄔㄤˊ ㄘㄨㄣˋ ㄉㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ganchángcùnduàn
    • Wade–Giles: kan¹-chʻang²-tsʻun⁴-tuan⁴
    • Yale: gān-cháng-tswùn-dwàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gancharngtsuennduann
    • Palladius: ганьчанцуньдуань (ganʹčancunʹduanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵ t͡sʰu̯ən⁵¹⁻⁵³ tu̯än⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gon¹ coeng⁴ cyun³ dyun⁶
    • Yale: gōn chèuhng chyun dyuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gon¹ tsoeng⁴ tsyn³ dyn⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: gon¹ cêng⁴ qun³ dün⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːn⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹ t͡sʰyːn³³ tyːn²²/

Idiom

肝腸寸斷

1. heartbroken; grieved
2. starving