忽冷忽熱

See also: 忽冷忽热

Chinese

		suddenly	cold	suddenly	heat; to heat up; fervent heat; to heat up; fervent; hot (of weather); warm up
trad. (忽冷忽熱)		忽	冷	忽	熱
simp. (忽冷忽热)		忽	冷	忽	热

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hūlěnghūrè

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨ ㄌㄥˇ ㄏㄨ ㄖㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fat¹ laang⁵ fat¹ jit⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hūlěnghūrè
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨ ㄌㄥˇ ㄏㄨ ㄖㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hulěnghurè
    • Wade–Giles: hu¹-lêng³-hu¹-jê⁴
    • Yale: hū-lěng-hū-rè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huleenghureh
    • Palladius: хулэнхужэ (xulɛnxužɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu⁵⁵ lɤŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu⁵⁵ ʐɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fat¹ laang⁵ fat¹ jit⁶
    • Yale: fāt láahng fāt yiht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fat⁷ laang⁵ fat⁷ jit⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fed¹ lang⁵ fed¹ yid⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐt̚⁵ laːŋ¹³ fɐt̚⁵ jiːt̚²/

Idiom

忽冷忽熱

1. to be sometimes hot and sometimes cold; to have drastic swings in temperature

   天氣忽冷忽熱，多穿點保險！ [MSC, trad.]
   天气忽冷忽热，多穿点保险！ [MSC, simp.]

   Tiānqì hūlěnghūrè, duō chuān diǎn bǎoxiǎn! [Pinyin]

   The weather is quite variable; please wear a bit more just to be safe!

2. to be sometimes warm and friendly but other times cold and indifferent; to blow hot and cold