摩肩接踵

Chinese

		to rub; to scour; to grind to rub; to scour; to grind;to stroke; to brush	shoulder	to follow the heels of; to follow one another
trad. (摩肩接踵)		摩	肩	接踵
simp. #(摩肩接踵)		摩	肩	接踵
Literally: “to rub shoulders following (one another's) heels”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mójiānjiēzhǒng

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˊ ㄐㄧㄢ ㄐㄧㄝ ㄓㄨㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mo¹ gin¹ zip³ zung²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mójiānjiēzhǒng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˊ ㄐㄧㄢ ㄐㄧㄝ ㄓㄨㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mójianjiejhǒng
    • Wade–Giles: mo²-chien¹-chieh¹-chung³
    • Yale: mwó-jyān-jyē-jǔng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mojianjiejoong
    • Palladius: моцзяньцзечжун (moczjanʹczečžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mo¹ gin¹ zip³ zung²
    • Yale: mō gīn jip júng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mo¹ gin¹ dzip⁸ dzung²
    • Guangdong Romanization: mo¹ gin¹ jib³ zung²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɔː⁵⁵ kiːn⁵⁵ t͡siːp̚³ t͡sʊŋ³⁵/

Idiom

摩肩接踵

1. to be crowded; to be filled with people.

   • 每个出名景点的人流量可以毫不夸张的用摩肩接踵来形容 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     From: 2024, 每个城市都“来了一亿人”，14亿人不够分了！不凑热闹的本地人去哪儿了？Every city has 100 million people arrive, 1.4 billion people aren't enough to split! Where did the locals who don't join in on the fun go? baijiahao.baidu.com 潇湘晨报 XiaoXiang Morning Herald [1]

     měi ge chūmíng jǐngdiǎn de rén liúliàng kěyǐ háobù kuāzhāng de yòng mójiānjiēzhǒng lái xíngróng [Pinyin]

     The flow of people at every famous tourist attraction can be described without exaggeration crowded to the point of rubbing shoulders and following others heels

References

• Baidu Encyclopedia [2]