打開天窗說亮話
Chinese
to open; to switch on | to speak; to say; persuade (politically) | blunt words; direct language | |||
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trad. (打開天窗說亮話) | 打開 | 天窗 | 說 | 亮話 | |
simp. (打开天窗说亮话) | 打开 | 天窗 | 说 | 亮话 | |
Literally: “to open the skylight to say candid words”. |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄎㄞ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄔㄨㄤ ㄕㄨㄛ ㄌㄧㄤˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dǎkai tianchuang shuo liànghuà
- Wade–Giles: ta3-kʻai1 tʻien1-chʻuang1 shuo1 liang4-hua4
- Yale: dǎ-kāi tyān-chwāng shwō lyàng-hwà
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daakai tianchuang shuo lianqhuah
- Palladius: дакай тяньчуан шо лянхуа (dakaj tjanʹčuan šo ljanxua)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ kʰaɪ̯⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵ li̯ɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ä⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Idiom
(deprecated template usage) 打開天窗說亮話
- (figurative) to speak candidly; to not beat around the bush
Categories:
- Chinese lemmas
- Mandarin lemmas
- Chinese idioms
- Mandarin idioms
- Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Chinese terms spelled with 打
- Chinese terms spelled with 開
- Chinese terms spelled with 天
- Chinese terms spelled with 窗
- Chinese terms spelled with 說
- Chinese terms spelled with 亮
- Chinese terms spelled with 話
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