放鴿子

See also: 放鸽子

Chinese[edit]

	to release; to free; to let go to release; to free; to let go; to put; to place; to let out	pigeon; dove
trad. (放鴿子)	放	鴿子
simp. (放鸽子)	放	鸽子
Literally: “to release a pigeon”.

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fàng gēzi
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄤˋ ㄍㄜ ˙ㄗ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fàng gezi̊h
  - Wade–Giles: fang⁴ ko¹-tzŭ⁵
  - Yale: fàng gē-dz
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fanq ge.tzy
  - Palladius: фан гэцзы (fan gɛczy)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɑŋ⁵¹ kɤ⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩²/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: fong³ gap³ zi²
  - Yale: fong gap jí
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fong³ gap⁸ dzi²
  - Guangdong Romanization: fong³ geb³ ji²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːŋ³³ kɐp̚³ t͡siː³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bang³ gab⁴ ze²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pàng kap tsṳ́
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paŋ²¹³⁻⁵⁵ kap̚²⁻⁴ t͡sɯ⁵²⁻²¹/
Wu
- (Shanghai):
  - Wugniu: ⁵faon ⁷keq-tsy
  - MiniDict: faon^去 keh^入 tsyi
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²faan ⁴keq-tsr
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /fɑ̃⁴⁴ kəʔ³³ t͡sz̩⁴⁴/

放⫽鴿子 (verb-object) (intransitive)

(colloquial, idiomatic) to stand someone up someone; to fail to show up
你竟敢放我鴿子！ [MSC, trad.]
你竟敢放我鸽子！ [MSC, simp.]
Nǐ jìng gǎn fàng wǒ gēzi! [Pinyin]
How dare you stand me up!
(colloquial) to drive off passengers before arriving at the destination
(colloquial) to abandon someone from a group activity
(Wu) to speak idly; to go back on one's words

Dialectal synonyms of 放鴿子 (“to stand someone up; to ditch someone”) [map]

(to fail to show up): (Taiwan) 黃牛／黄牛 (huángniú); (Internet slang) 鴿／鸽 (gē), 咕 (gū)