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{
"forms": [
{
"form": "不闻不问",
"raw_tags": [
"Simplified Chinese"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "idiom"
},
"expansion": "不聞不問",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"literal_meaning": "to neither hear nor question",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Cantonese chengyu",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Chinese chengyu",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin chengyu",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin words containing 不 undergoing tone sandhi",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to not bother to ask or to listen; to show no interest in; to be indifferent to"
],
"id": "en-不聞不問-zh-phrase-M~2NPvjv",
"links": [
[
"bother",
"bother"
],
[
"ask",
"ask"
],
[
"listen",
"listen"
],
[
"show",
"show"
],
[
"interest",
"interest"
],
[
"indifferent",
"indifferent"
]
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "bùwénbùwèn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄣˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄣˋ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "bat¹ man⁴ bat¹ man⁶"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "bùwénbùwèn [Phonetic:bùwénbúwèn]"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄣˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄣˋ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "bùwúnbùwùn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "pu⁴-wên²-pu⁴-wên⁴"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "bù-wén-bù-wèn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "buwenbuwenn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "бувэньбувэнь"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "buvɛnʹbuvɛnʹ"
},
{
"ipa": "/pu⁵¹ wən³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ wən⁵¹/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "bāt màhn bāt mahn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "bat⁷ man⁴ bat⁷ man⁶"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "bed¹ men⁴ bed¹ men⁶"
},
{
"ipa": "/pɐt̚⁵ mɐn²¹ pɐt̚⁵ mɐn²²/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"other": "[Phonetic: bùwénbúwèn]"
},
{
"ipa": "/pu⁵¹ wən³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ wən⁵¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/pɐt̚⁵ mɐn²¹ pɐt̚⁵ mɐn²²/"
}
],
"word": "不聞不問"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "不闻不问",
"raw_tags": [
"Simplified Chinese"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "idiom"
},
"expansion": "不聞不問",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"literal_meaning": "to neither hear nor question",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Cantonese chengyu",
"Cantonese idioms",
"Cantonese lemmas",
"Chinese chengyu",
"Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"Chinese idioms",
"Chinese lemmas",
"Chinese terms spelled with 不",
"Chinese terms spelled with 問",
"Chinese terms spelled with 聞",
"Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Mandarin chengyu",
"Mandarin idioms",
"Mandarin lemmas",
"Mandarin words containing 不 undergoing tone sandhi",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"to not bother to ask or to listen; to show no interest in; to be indifferent to"
],
"links": [
[
"bother",
"bother"
],
[
"ask",
"ask"
],
[
"listen",
"listen"
],
[
"show",
"show"
],
[
"interest",
"interest"
],
[
"indifferent",
"indifferent"
]
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "bùwénbùwèn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄣˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄣˋ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "bat¹ man⁴ bat¹ man⁶"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "bùwénbùwèn [Phonetic:bùwénbúwèn]"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄣˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄣˋ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "bùwúnbùwùn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "pu⁴-wên²-pu⁴-wên⁴"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "bù-wén-bù-wèn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "buwenbuwenn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "бувэньбувэнь"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "buvɛnʹbuvɛnʹ"
},
{
"ipa": "/pu⁵¹ wən³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ wən⁵¹/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "bāt màhn bāt mahn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "bat⁷ man⁴ bat⁷ man⁶"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "bed¹ men⁴ bed¹ men⁶"
},
{
"ipa": "/pɐt̚⁵ mɐn²¹ pɐt̚⁵ mɐn²²/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"other": "[Phonetic: bùwénbúwèn]"
},
{
"ipa": "/pu⁵¹ wən³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ wən⁵¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/pɐt̚⁵ mɐn²¹ pɐt̚⁵ mɐn²²/"
}
],
"word": "不聞不問"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 不聞不問 meaning in Chinese (2.5kB)
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"path": [
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"subsection": "",
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