活地獄

Chinese

		alive	hell
trad. (活地獄)		活	地獄
simp. (活地狱)		活	地狱

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huódìyù

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄛˊ ㄉㄧˋ ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wut⁶ dei⁶ juk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huódìyù
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˊ ㄉㄧˋ ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huódìyù
    • Wade–Giles: huo²-ti⁴-yü⁴
    • Yale: hwó-dì-yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwodihyuh
    • Palladius: ходиюй (xodijuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ɔ³⁵ ti⁵¹⁻⁵³ y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wut⁶ dei⁶ juk⁶
    • Yale: wuht deih yuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wut⁹ dei⁶ juk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wud⁶ déi⁶ yug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːt̚² tei̯²² jʊk̚²/

Noun

活地獄

1. hell on earth

   • 總之，十六國時期的黃河流域像個活地獄，戰爭、災禍和死亡威脅著居住於陝西、山西、河南、河北、山東、安徽等省的人民。 [MSC, trad.]
     总之，十六国时期的黄河流域像个活地狱，战争、灾祸和死亡威胁着居住于陕西、山西、河南、河北、山东、安徽等省的人民。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1999, 蓝小玲 (Lan Xiaoling), 《闽西客家方言》[Hakka dialects in Western Fujian], Xiamen: Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 2

     Zǒngzhī, Shíliù-Guó shíqī de Huánghé liúyù xiàng ge huódìyù, zhànzhēng, zāihuò hé sǐwáng wēixiézhe jūzhù yú Shǎnxī, Shānxī, Hénán, Héběi, Shāndōng, Ānhuī děng shěng de rénmín. [Pinyin]

     In summary, the Yellow River region in the Sixteen Kingdoms period was hell on earth. Warfare, calamities and death imposed a threat to the people of provinces such as Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong and Anhui.