千奇百怪

Chinese

		thousand	strange; odd; weird strange; odd; weird; wonderful; odd (Num)	hundred	queer; to blame
simp. and trad. (千奇百怪)		千	奇	百	怪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiānqíbǎiguài

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ ㄑㄧˊ ㄅㄞˇ ㄍㄨㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cin¹ kei⁴ baak³ gwaai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiānqíbǎiguài
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ ㄑㄧˊ ㄅㄞˇ ㄍㄨㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ciancíbǎiguài
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien¹-chʻi²-pai³-kuai⁴
    • Yale: chyān-chí-bǎi-gwài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chianchyibaeguay
    • Palladius: цяньцибайгуай (cjanʹcibajguaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi³⁵ paɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯aɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cin¹ kei⁴ baak³ gwaai³
    • Yale: chīn kèih baak gwaai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsin¹ kei⁴ baak⁸ gwaai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: qin¹ kéi⁴ bag³ guai³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵ kʰei̯²¹ paːk̚³ kʷaːi̯³³/

Idiom

千奇百怪

1. very strange; very odd

   • 黨內無派，千奇百怪 [MSC, trad.]
     党内无派，千奇百怪 [MSC, simp.]

     From: Chen Duxiu, 1927

     dǎng nèi wú pài, qiānqíbǎiguài [Pinyin]

     To have no factions within a party is very odd.