摩肩接踵

Chinese

		to rub; to scour; to grind to rub; to scour; to grind;to stroke; to brush	shoulder	to follow the heels of; to follow one another
trad. (摩肩接踵)		摩	肩	接踵
simp. #(摩肩接踵)		摩	肩	接踵
Literally: “to rub shoulders following (one another's) heels”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mójiānjiēzhǒng

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˊ ㄐㄧㄢ ㄐㄧㄝ ㄓㄨㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mo¹ gin¹ zip³ zung²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mójiānjiēzhǒng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˊ ㄐㄧㄢ ㄐㄧㄝ ㄓㄨㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mójianjiejhǒng
    • Wade–Giles: mo²-chien¹-chieh¹-chung³
    • Yale: mwó-jyān-jyē-jǔng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mojianjiejoong
    • Palladius: моцзяньцзечжун (moczjanʹczečžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mo¹ gin¹ zip³ zung²
    • Yale: mō gīn jip júng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mo¹ gin¹ dzip⁸ dzung²
    • Guangdong Romanization: mo¹ gin¹ jib³ zung²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɔː⁵⁵ kiːn⁵⁵ t͡siːp̚³ t͡sʊŋ³⁵/

Idiom

摩肩接踵

1. to be crowded; to be filled with people.

   • 每个出名景点的人流量可以毫不夸张的用摩肩接踵来形容 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     From: 2024May 2, 每个城市都“来了一亿人”，14亿人不够分了！不凑热闹的本地人去哪儿了？

     měi ge chūmíng jǐngdiǎn de rén liúliàng kěyǐ háobù kuāzhāng de yòng mójiānjiēzhǒng lái xíngróng [Pinyin]

     The flow of people at every famous tourist attraction can be described without exaggeration crowded to the point of rubbing shoulders and following each others heels

References

• Baidu Encyclopedia [1]