不自量

Chinese

		not; no	to estimate one's own ability or strength
simp. and trad. (不自量)		不	自量

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùzìliàng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄗˋ ㄌㄧㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ zi⁶ loeng⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùzìliàng [Phonetic: búzìliàng]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄗˋ ㄌㄧㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùzìhliàng
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-tzŭ⁴-liang⁴
    • Yale: bù-dz̀-lyàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: butzyhlianq
    • Palladius: буцзылян (buczyljan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ li̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ zi⁶ loeng⁶
    • Yale: bāt jih leuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ dzi⁶ loeng⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ ji⁶ lêng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ t͡siː²² lœːŋ²²/

Verb

不自量

1. to not take a proper measure of oneself; to overrate one's own abilities

   • 世上最可笑的是那些「知識裡手」，有了道聽塗說的一知半解，便自封為「天下第一」，適足見其不自量而已。 [MSC, trad.]
     世上最可笑的是那些「知识里手」，有了道听涂说的一知半解，便自封为「天下第一」，适足见其不自量而已。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1937, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《實踐論》 (On Practice), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Shìshàng zuì kěxiào de shì nàxiē “zhīshi lǐshǒu”, yǒu le dàotīngtúshuō de yīzhībànjiě, biàn zìfēng wéi “tiānxiàdìyī”, shì zújiàn qí bùzìliàng éryǐ. [Pinyin]

     The most ridiculous person in the world is the “know all” who picks up a smattering of hearsay knowledge and proclaims themselves “the world's Number One authority”; this merely shows that they have not taken a proper measure of themselves.