痛定思痛

Chinese

		ache; pain; sorrow	to set; to fix; to determine to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to stabilize; to order	to think; to consider	ache; pain; sorrow
simp. and trad. (痛定思痛)		痛	定	思	痛

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tòngdìngsītòng

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˋ ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄙ ㄊㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tung³ ding⁶ si¹ tung³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tòngdìngsītòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˋ ㄉㄧㄥˋ ㄙ ㄊㄨㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tòngdìngsihtòng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung⁴-ting⁴-ssŭ¹-tʻung⁴
    • Yale: tùng-dìng-sz̄-tùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tonqdinqsytonq
    • Palladius: тундинсытун (tundinsytun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ tiŋ⁵¹ sz̩⁵⁵ tʰʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tung³ ding⁶ si¹ tung³
    • Yale: tung dihng sī tung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tung³ ding⁶ si¹ tung³
    • Guangdong Romanization: tung³ ding⁶ xi¹ tung³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³³ tɪŋ²² siː⁵⁵ tʰʊŋ³³/

Idiom

痛定思痛

1. to recall one's painful experience after the sorrow has passed, often to learn a lesson from the bitter experience