囫圇吞棗
Chinese
complete; whole; sweeping and vague | to swallow; to take | jujube | ||
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trad. (囫圇吞棗) | 囫圇 | 吞 | 棗 | |
simp. (囫囵吞枣) | 囫囵 | 吞 | 枣 | |
alternative forms | 鶻崙吞棗/鹘仑吞枣 | |||
Literally: “to swallow a jujube whole”. |
Etymology
From a story in the Blue Cliff Record ((deprecated template usage) 《碧巖錄》):
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˊ ㄌㄨㄣˊ ㄊㄨㄣ ㄗㄠˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: húlúntunzǎo
- Wade–Giles: hu2-lun2-tʻun1-tsao3
- Yale: hú-lwún-twūn-dzǎu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwuluentuentzao
- Palladius: хулуньтуньцзао (xulunʹtunʹczao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xu³⁵ lu̯ən³⁵ tʰu̯ən⁵⁵ t͡sɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˊ ㄌㄨㄣˊ ㄊㄨㄣ ㄗㄠˇㄦ
- Tongyong Pinyin: húlúntunzǎor
- Wade–Giles: hu2-lun2-tʻun1-tsao3-ʼrh
- Yale: hú-lwún-twūn-dzǎur
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwuluentuentzaol
- Palladius: хулуньтуньцзаор (xulunʹtunʹczaor)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xu³⁵ lu̯ən³⁵ tʰu̯ən⁵⁵ t͡saʊ̯ɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: fat1 leon4 tan1 zou2
- Yale: fāt lèuhn tān jóu
- Cantonese Pinyin: fat7 loen4 tan1 dzou2
- Guangdong Romanization: fed1 lên4 ten1 zou2
- Sinological IPA (key): /fɐt̚⁵ lɵn²¹ tʰɐn⁵⁵ t͡sou̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Idiom
(deprecated template usage) 囫圇吞棗
- (figurative) to accept without thinking; to read without understanding
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