寸土寸金

Chinese

		a unit of length	earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian	a unit of length	metal; gold; money
simp. and trad. (寸土寸金)		寸	土	寸	金

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cùntǔcùnjīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣˋ ㄊㄨˇ ㄘㄨㄣˋ ㄐㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun³ tou² cyun³ gam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cùntǔcùnjīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣˋ ㄊㄨˇ ㄘㄨㄣˋ ㄐㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cùntǔcùnjin
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻun⁴-tʻu³-tsʻun⁴-chin¹
    • Yale: tswùn-tǔ-tswùn-jīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuenntuutsuennjin
    • Palladius: цуньтуцуньцзинь (cunʹtucunʹczinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ən⁵¹ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡sʰu̯ən⁵¹ t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun³ tou² cyun³ gam¹
    • Yale: chyun tóu chyun gām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn³ tou² tsyn³ gam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun³ tou² qun³ gem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn³³ tʰou̯³⁵ t͡sʰyːn³³ kɐm⁵⁵/

Idiom

寸土寸金

1. every inch of land is an inch of gold; land is extremely expensive in an area