雞飛蛋打

Chinese

		fowl; chicken	to fly	egg; oval shaped	beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen
trad. (雞飛蛋打/鷄飛蛋打)		雞/鷄	飛	蛋	打
simp. (鸡飞蛋打)		鸡	飞	蛋	打
Literally: “the chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīfēidàndǎ

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ ㄈㄟ ㄉㄢˋ ㄉㄚˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gai¹ fei¹ daan^6-2 daa²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīfēidàndǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ ㄈㄟ ㄉㄢˋ ㄉㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jifeidàndǎ
    • Wade–Giles: chi¹-fei¹-tan⁴-ta³
    • Yale: jī-fēi-dàn-dǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jifeidanndaa
    • Palladius: цзифэйданьда (czifɛjdanʹda)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵ feɪ̯⁵⁵ tän⁵¹ tä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gai¹ fei¹ daan^6-2 daa²
    • Yale: gāi fēi dáan dá
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gai¹ fei¹ daan^6-2 daa²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gei¹ féi¹ dan^6-2 da²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐi̯⁵⁵ fei̯⁵⁵ taːn²²⁻³⁵ taː³⁵/

Idiom

雞飛蛋打

1. (figurative) everything is lost; a dead loss