本末倒置
Chinese
root or trunk of a tree and the branches; the fundamental and the incidental | to place upside down; to invert; to invert | ||
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simp. and trad. (本末倒置) |
本末 | 倒置 |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄣˇ ㄇㄛˋ ㄉㄠˋ ㄓˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: běnmòdàojhìh
- Wade–Giles: pên3-mo4-tao4-chih4
- Yale: běn-mwò-dàu-jr̀
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beenmohdawjyh
- Palladius: бэньмодаочжи (bɛnʹmodaočži)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pən²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ tɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: bun2 mut6 dou2 zi3
- Yale: bún muht dóu ji
- Cantonese Pinyin: bun2 mut9 dou2 dzi3
- Guangdong Romanization: bun2 mud6 dou2 ji3
- Sinological IPA (key): /puːn³⁵ muːt̚² tou̯³⁵ t͡siː³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Idiom
(deprecated template usage) 本末倒置