泛濫成災

Chinese

		to flood; to inundate; to overflow to flood; to inundate; to overflow; to spread unchecked; to run rampant	finish; complete; accomplish finish; complete; accomplish; become; turn into; win; succeed; one tenth	disaster; calamity
trad. (泛濫成災/氾濫成災)		泛濫/氾濫	成	災
simp. (泛滥成灾)		泛滥	成	灾

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fànlànchéngzāi

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˋ ㄌㄢˋ ㄔㄥˊ ㄗㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan³ laam⁶ sing⁴ zoi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fànlànchéngzāi
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˋ ㄌㄢˋ ㄔㄥˊ ㄗㄞ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fànlànchéngzai
    • Wade–Giles: fan⁴-lan⁴-chʻêng²-tsai¹
    • Yale: fàn-làn-chéng-dzāi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fannlanncherngtzai
    • Palladius: фаньланьчэнцзай (fanʹlanʹčɛnczaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän⁵¹⁻⁵³ län⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵ t͡saɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan³ laam⁶ sing⁴ zoi¹
    • Yale: faan laahm sìhng jōi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan³ laam⁶ sing⁴ dzoi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan³ lam⁶ xing⁴ zoi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn³³ laːm²² sɪŋ²¹ t͡sɔːi̯⁵⁵/

Idiom

(deprecated template usage) 泛濫成災

1. to flood and cause disaster
2. to run rampant; to run wild; to run amok

   • 表報之多，鬧得泛濫成災。 [MSC, trad.]
     表报之多，闹得泛滥成灾。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1956, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論十大關係》 (On the Ten Major Relationships), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Biǎobào zhī duō, nào de fànlànchéngzāi. [Pinyin]

     There is such a flood of statistical forms that they become a scourge.