好花插在牛糞上
Chinese
| good; well; be fond of | flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern |
insert; stick in; pierce insert; stick in; pierce; to take part in; to interfere; to interpose |
(located) at; in; exist (located) at; in; exist; (before verbs) immediately involved in; right in the middle of doing |
cow dung | up; on; on top up; on; on top; upon; first; previous or last; upper; higher; above; previous; to climb; to go into; to go up | ||
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| trad. (好花插在牛糞上) | 好 | 花 | 插 | 在 | 牛糞 | 上 | |
| simp. (好花插在牛粪上) | 好 | 花 | 插 | 在 | 牛粪 | 上 | |
| Literally: “Pleasant flowers stuck into a pile of cow dung”. | |||||||
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄏㄨㄚ ㄔㄚ ㄗㄞˋ ㄋㄧㄡˊ ㄈㄣˋ ㄕㄤˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: hǎo hua chazài nióufèn shàng
- Wade–Giles: hao3 hua1 chʻa1-tsai4 niu2-fên4 shang4
- Yale: hǎu hwā chā-dzài nyóu-fèn shàng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hao hua chatzay nioufenn shanq
- Palladius: хао хуа чацзай нюфэнь шан (xao xua čaczaj njufɛnʹ šan)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵⁵ t͡saɪ̯⁵¹ ni̯oʊ̯³⁵ fən⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂɑŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Idiom
好花插在牛糞上