打馬虎眼

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen
trad. (打馬虎眼)		打	馬虎眼
simp. (打马虎眼)		打	马虎眼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎ mǎhuyǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄇㄚˇ ˙ㄏㄨ ㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² maa⁵ fu² ngaan⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎ mǎhuyǎn [Phonetic: dámǎhuyǎn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄇㄚˇ ˙ㄏㄨ ㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎ mǎhůyǎn
    • Wade–Giles: ta³ ma³-hu⁵-yen³
    • Yale: dǎ mǎ-hu-yǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daa maa.huyean
    • Palladius: да махуянь (da maxujanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mä²¹⁴ xu⁴ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² maa⁵ fu² ngaan⁵
    • Yale: dá máh fú ngáahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² maa⁵ fu² ngaan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² ma⁵ fu² ngan⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ maː¹³ fuː³⁵ ŋaːn¹³/

Verb

打馬虎眼

1. (dialectal) to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to gloss it over; to act dumb