飽食終日，無所用心

Chinese

		to spend the whole day eating		to not give serious thought to anything; carefree; happy-go-lucky
trad. (飽食終日，無所用心)		飽食終日	，	無所用心
simp. (饱食终日，无所用心)		饱食终日	，	无所用心

Etymology

From the Analects, Book 17 (《論語·陽貨》):

子曰：「飽食終日，無所用心，難矣哉！不有博弈者乎，為之猶賢乎已。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

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子曰：「饱食终日，无所用心，难矣哉！不有博弈者乎，为之犹贤乎已。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Zǐyuē: “Bǎoshí zhōngrì, wú suǒ yòngxīn, nán yǐ zāi! Bù yǒu bóyì zhě hū, wéi zhī yóu xián hū yǐ.” [Pinyin]

The Master said, "Hard is it to deal with who will stuff himself with food the whole day, without applying his mind to anything good! Are there not gamesters and chess players? To be one of these would still be better than doing nothing at all."

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǎoshízhōngrì, wúsuǒyòngxīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠˇ ㄕˊ ㄓㄨㄥ ㄖˋ , ㄨˊ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄩㄥˋ ㄒㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baau² sik⁶ zung¹ jat⁶, mou⁴ so² jung⁶ sam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǎoshízhōngrì, wúsuǒyòngxīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˇ ㄕˊ ㄓㄨㄥ ㄖˋ , ㄨˊ ㄙㄨㄛˇ ㄩㄥˋ ㄒㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǎoshíhjhongrìh, wúsuǒyòngsin
    • Wade–Giles: pao³-shih²-chung¹-jih⁴, wu²-so³-yung⁴-hsin¹
    • Yale: bǎu-shŕ-jūng-r̀-, wú-swǒ-yùng-syīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baoshyrjongryh, wusuooyonqshin
    • Palladius: баошичжунжи, усоюнсинь (baošičžunži, usojunsinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ ʐ̩⁵¹ u³⁵ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹ jʊŋ⁵¹ ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baau² sik⁶ zung¹ jat⁶, mou⁴ so² jung⁶ sam¹
    • Yale: báau sihk jūng yaht, mòuh só yuhng sām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baau² sik⁹ dzung¹ jat⁹, mou⁴ so² jung⁶ sam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bao² xig⁶ zung¹ yed⁶, mou⁴ so² yung⁶ sem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːu̯³⁵ sɪk̚² t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵ jɐt̚² mou̯²¹ sɔː³⁵ jʊŋ²² sɐm⁵⁵/

Idiom

飽食終日，無所用心

1. to eat all day without thinking; to eat three square meals a day and do no work; to be sated with food and lead an idle life