"問長問短" meaning in All languages combined

See 問長問短 on Wiktionary

Phrase [Chinese]

IPA: /wən⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵ wən⁵¹ tu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /mɐn²² t͡sʰœːŋ²¹ mɐn²² tyːn³⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA], /mŋ̍²²⁻²¹ tŋ̍²⁴⁻²² mŋ̍²²⁻²¹ te⁵³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Xiamen], /mŋ̍⁴¹⁻²² tŋ̍²⁴⁻²² mŋ̍⁴¹⁻²² te⁵⁵⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Quanzhou], /mŋ̍²²⁻²¹ tŋ̍¹³⁻²² mŋ̍²²⁻²¹ te⁵³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Zhangzhou], /mŋ̍³³⁻¹¹ tŋ̍²⁴⁻¹¹ mŋ̍³³⁻¹¹ te⁵³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Taipei], /mŋ̍³³⁻²¹ tŋ̍²³⁻³³ mŋ̍³³⁻²¹ te⁴¹/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Kaohsiung] Forms: 问长问短 [Simplified-Chinese]
Head templates: {{head|zh|idiom}} 問長問短
  1. to ask about the length and breadth of various things; to ask all sorts of (trivial) questions Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-問長問短-zh-phrase-SIMvdo2Z Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "问长问短",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "問長問短",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to ask about the length and breadth of various things; to ask all sorts of (trivial) questions"
      ],
      "id": "en-問長問短-zh-phrase-SIMvdo2Z",
      "links": [
        [
          "ask",
          "ask"
        ],
        [
          "length",
          "length"
        ],
        [
          "breadth",
          "breadth"
        ],
        [
          "trivial",
          "trivial"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wènchángwènduǎn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄨㄣˋ ㄔㄤˊ ㄨㄣˋ ㄉㄨㄢˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "man⁶ coeng⁴ man⁶ dyun²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "mn̄g-tn̂g-mn̄g-té"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wènchángwènduǎn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄨㄣˋ ㄔㄤˊ ㄨㄣˋ ㄉㄨㄢˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wùnchángwùnduǎn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wên⁴-chʻang²-wên⁴-tuan³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wèn-cháng-wèn-dwǎn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wenncharngwenndoan"
    },
    {
      "roman": "vɛnʹčanvɛnʹduanʹ",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "вэньчанвэньдуань"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wən⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵ wən⁵¹ tu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "man⁶ coeng⁴ man⁶ dyun²"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "mahn chèuhng mahn dyún"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "man⁶ tsoeng⁴ man⁶ dyn²"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "men⁶ cêng⁴ men⁶ dün²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɐn²² t͡sʰœːŋ²¹ mɐn²² tyːn³⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "mn̄g-tn̂g-mn̄g-té"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "mn̄g-tn̂g-mn̄g-té"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "mngxd'ngmngxdea"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mŋ̍²²⁻²¹ tŋ̍²⁴⁻²² mŋ̍²²⁻²¹ te⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mŋ̍⁴¹⁻²² tŋ̍²⁴⁻²² mŋ̍⁴¹⁻²² te⁵⁵⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mŋ̍²²⁻²¹ tŋ̍¹³⁻²² mŋ̍²²⁻²¹ te⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mŋ̍³³⁻¹¹ tŋ̍²⁴⁻¹¹ mŋ̍³³⁻¹¹ te⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mŋ̍³³⁻²¹ tŋ̍²³⁻³³ mŋ̍³³⁻²¹ te⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "問長問短"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "问长问短",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "問長問短",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese idioms",
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese idioms",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 問",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 短",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 長",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Hokkien idioms",
        "Hokkien lemmas",
        "Mandarin idioms",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to ask about the length and breadth of various things; to ask all sorts of (trivial) questions"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ask",
          "ask"
        ],
        [
          "length",
          "length"
        ],
        [
          "breadth",
          "breadth"
        ],
        [
          "trivial",
          "trivial"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wènchángwènduǎn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄨㄣˋ ㄔㄤˊ ㄨㄣˋ ㄉㄨㄢˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "man⁶ coeng⁴ man⁶ dyun²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "mn̄g-tn̂g-mn̄g-té"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wènchángwènduǎn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄨㄣˋ ㄔㄤˊ ㄨㄣˋ ㄉㄨㄢˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wùnchángwùnduǎn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wên⁴-chʻang²-wên⁴-tuan³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wèn-cháng-wèn-dwǎn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wenncharngwenndoan"
    },
    {
      "roman": "vɛnʹčanvɛnʹduanʹ",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "вэньчанвэньдуань"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wən⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵ wən⁵¹ tu̯än²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "man⁶ coeng⁴ man⁶ dyun²"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "mahn chèuhng mahn dyún"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "man⁶ tsoeng⁴ man⁶ dyn²"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "men⁶ cêng⁴ men⁶ dün²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɐn²² t͡sʰœːŋ²¹ mɐn²² tyːn³⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "mn̄g-tn̂g-mn̄g-té"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "mn̄g-tn̂g-mn̄g-té"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "mngxd'ngmngxdea"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mŋ̍²²⁻²¹ tŋ̍²⁴⁻²² mŋ̍²²⁻²¹ te⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mŋ̍⁴¹⁻²² tŋ̍²⁴⁻²² mŋ̍⁴¹⁻²² te⁵⁵⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mŋ̍²²⁻²¹ tŋ̍¹³⁻²² mŋ̍²²⁻²¹ te⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mŋ̍³³⁻¹¹ tŋ̍²⁴⁻¹¹ mŋ̍³³⁻¹¹ te⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mŋ̍³³⁻²¹ tŋ̍²³⁻³³ mŋ̍³³⁻²¹ te⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "問長問短"
}

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