咄嗟

Chinese

		noise of rage, cry out in anger	sigh
trad. (咄嗟)		咄	嗟
simp. #(咄嗟)		咄	嗟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duōjiē, duòjiē

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄛ ㄐㄧㄝ, ㄉㄨㄛˋ ㄐㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyu³ ze¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duōjiē
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛ ㄐㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duojie
    • Wade–Giles: to¹-chieh¹
    • Yale: dwō-jyē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duojie
    • Palladius: доцзе (docze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duòjiē
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛˋ ㄐㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duòjie
    • Wade–Giles: to⁴-chieh¹
    • Yale: dwò-jyē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duohjie
    • Palladius: доцзе (docze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯ɔ⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyu³ ze¹
    • Yale: chyu jē
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsy³ dze¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qu³ zé¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyː³³ t͡sɛː⁵⁵/

Verb

咄嗟

1. (literary) to sigh
2. (literary) to berate; to roar; to howl
3. (dated) to start (an order); to cry out

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 咄嗟

1. (literary) very short time

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
咄	嗟
とつ > とっ Hyōgaiji	さ Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

Noun

咄(とっ)嗟(さ) • (tossa) 

1. a very short time

Derived terms

• 咄嗟(とっさ)に (tossa ni)