See 倒錢落海 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Created by the Hong Kong government as a slogan used in an anti-gambling TV advertisement in 2005 (with the slogan quoted below), where 倒錢 /倒钱 is a homophonic pun on 賭錢 /赌钱 (dou² cin⁴⁻²).",
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"lang_code": "zh",
"literal_meaning": "to pour money into the sea",
"pos": "phrase",
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{
"english": "Excessive gambling costs more than you can afford. (literally, “Gambling addiction is like pouring money into the sea.”)",
"raw_tags": [
"Traditional Chinese"
],
"ref": " 2005, Hong Kong anti-gambling TV commercial",
"roman": "cam⁴ mai⁴ dou² bok³, dou² cin⁴ lok⁶ hoi²",
"tags": [
"Jyutping",
"Cantonese"
],
"text": "沉迷賭博，倒錢落海",
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},
{
"english": "Excessive gambling costs more than you can afford. (literally, “Gambling addiction is like pouring money into the sea.”)",
"raw_tags": [
"Simplified Chinese"
],
"ref": " 2005, Hong Kong anti-gambling TV commercial",
"roman": "cam⁴ mai⁴ dou² bok³, dou² cin⁴ lok⁶ hoi²",
"tags": [
"Jyutping",
"Cantonese"
],
"text": "沉迷赌博，倒钱落海",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "[The Save Lantau Alliance] is concerned that if the government still carries out the \"Lantau Tomorrow Vision\" plan under decreasing population, decreasing need of commercial land use, decrease in reserves and structural deficit, this project costing billions of dollars will be a complete waste of money and would adversely affect several generations.",
"raw_tags": [
"MSC",
"Traditional Chinese"
],
"ref": " 2022, Petition by Save Lantau Alliance to LegCo",
"roman": "Zài Xiānggǎng rénkǒu jí shāngyè yòngdì xūyào xiàjiàng, chǔbèi dàfú xiàjiàng jí jiégòuxìng cáichì wēijī xià, réng qiǎng tuī míngrì Dàyǔ Jiāoyǐzhōu tiánhǎi jìhuà, dānxīn wànyì gōngchéng, dǎoqiánluòhǎi, huò yán jǐ dài.",
"tags": [
"Pinyin"
],
"text": "在香港人口及商業用地需要下降、儲備大幅下降及結構性財赤危機下，仍強推明日大嶼交椅洲填海計劃，擔心萬億工程，倒錢落海，禍延幾代。",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "[The Save Lantau Alliance] is concerned that if the government still carries out the \"Lantau Tomorrow Vision\" plan under decreasing population, decreasing need of commercial land use, decrease in reserves and structural deficit, this project costing billions of dollars will be a complete waste of money and would adversely affect several generations.",
"raw_tags": [
"MSC",
"Simplified Chinese"
],
"ref": " 2022, Petition by Save Lantau Alliance to LegCo",
"roman": "Zài Xiānggǎng rénkǒu jí shāngyè yòngdì xūyào xiàjiàng, chǔbèi dàfú xiàjiàng jí jiégòuxìng cáichì wēijī xià, réng qiǎng tuī míngrì Dàyǔ Jiāoyǐzhōu tiánhǎi jìhuà, dānxīn wànyì gōngchéng, dǎoqiánluòhǎi, huò yán jǐ dài.",
"tags": [
"Pinyin"
],
"text": "在香港人口及商业用地需要下降、储备大幅下降及结构性财赤危机下，仍强推明日大屿交椅洲填海计划，担心万亿工程，倒钱落海，祸延几代。",
"type": "quote"
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],
"glosses": [
"to pour money down the drain; to squander money"
],
"id": "en-倒錢落海-zh-phrase-dJD~CiKv",
"links": [
[
"pour",
"pour"
],
[
"money",
"money"
],
[
"down the drain",
"down the drain"
],
[
"squander",
"squander"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Hong Kong Cantonese) to pour money down the drain; to squander money"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Hong-Kong",
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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"zh-pron": "dou² cin⁴⁻² lok⁶ hoi²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "dóu chín lohk hói"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "dou² tsin⁴⁻² lok⁹ hoi²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "dou² qin⁴⁻² log⁶ hoi²"
},
{
"ipa": "/tou̯³⁵ t͡sʰiːn²¹⁻³⁵ lɔːk̚² hɔːi̯³⁵/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/tou̯³⁵ t͡sʰiːn²¹⁻³⁵ lɔːk̚² hɔːi̯³⁵/"
}
],
"word": "倒錢落海"
}
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"etymology_text": "Created by the Hong Kong government as a slogan used in an anti-gambling TV advertisement in 2005 (with the slogan quoted below), where 倒錢 /倒钱 is a homophonic pun on 賭錢 /赌钱 (dou² cin⁴⁻²).",
"forms": [
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"lang_code": "zh",
"literal_meaning": "to pour money into the sea",
"pos": "phrase",
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"Chinese terms spelled with 倒",
"Chinese terms spelled with 海",
"Chinese terms spelled with 落",
"Chinese terms spelled with 錢",
"Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
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{
"english": "Excessive gambling costs more than you can afford. (literally, “Gambling addiction is like pouring money into the sea.”)",
"raw_tags": [
"Traditional Chinese"
],
"ref": " 2005, Hong Kong anti-gambling TV commercial",
"roman": "cam⁴ mai⁴ dou² bok³, dou² cin⁴ lok⁶ hoi²",
"tags": [
"Jyutping",
"Cantonese"
],
"text": "沉迷賭博，倒錢落海",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "Excessive gambling costs more than you can afford. (literally, “Gambling addiction is like pouring money into the sea.”)",
"raw_tags": [
"Simplified Chinese"
],
"ref": " 2005, Hong Kong anti-gambling TV commercial",
"roman": "cam⁴ mai⁴ dou² bok³, dou² cin⁴ lok⁶ hoi²",
"tags": [
"Jyutping",
"Cantonese"
],
"text": "沉迷赌博，倒钱落海",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "[The Save Lantau Alliance] is concerned that if the government still carries out the \"Lantau Tomorrow Vision\" plan under decreasing population, decreasing need of commercial land use, decrease in reserves and structural deficit, this project costing billions of dollars will be a complete waste of money and would adversely affect several generations.",
"raw_tags": [
"MSC",
"Traditional Chinese"
],
"ref": " 2022, Petition by Save Lantau Alliance to LegCo",
"roman": "Zài Xiānggǎng rénkǒu jí shāngyè yòngdì xūyào xiàjiàng, chǔbèi dàfú xiàjiàng jí jiégòuxìng cáichì wēijī xià, réng qiǎng tuī míngrì Dàyǔ Jiāoyǐzhōu tiánhǎi jìhuà, dānxīn wànyì gōngchéng, dǎoqiánluòhǎi, huò yán jǐ dài.",
"tags": [
"Pinyin"
],
"text": "在香港人口及商業用地需要下降、儲備大幅下降及結構性財赤危機下，仍強推明日大嶼交椅洲填海計劃，擔心萬億工程，倒錢落海，禍延幾代。",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "[The Save Lantau Alliance] is concerned that if the government still carries out the \"Lantau Tomorrow Vision\" plan under decreasing population, decreasing need of commercial land use, decrease in reserves and structural deficit, this project costing billions of dollars will be a complete waste of money and would adversely affect several generations.",
"raw_tags": [
"MSC",
"Simplified Chinese"
],
"ref": " 2022, Petition by Save Lantau Alliance to LegCo",
"roman": "Zài Xiānggǎng rénkǒu jí shāngyè yòngdì xūyào xiàjiàng, chǔbèi dàfú xiàjiàng jí jiégòuxìng cáichì wēijī xià, réng qiǎng tuī míngrì Dàyǔ Jiāoyǐzhōu tiánhǎi jìhuà, dānxīn wànyì gōngchéng, dǎoqiánluòhǎi, huò yán jǐ dài.",
"tags": [
"Pinyin"
],
"text": "在香港人口及商业用地需要下降、储备大幅下降及结构性财赤危机下，仍强推明日大屿交椅洲填海计划，担心万亿工程，倒钱落海，祸延几代。",
"type": "quote"
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"glosses": [
"to pour money down the drain; to squander money"
],
"links": [
[
"pour",
"pour"
],
[
"money",
"money"
],
[
"down the drain",
"down the drain"
],
[
"squander",
"squander"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Hong Kong Cantonese) to pour money down the drain; to squander money"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Hong-Kong",
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "dou² cin⁴⁻² lok⁶ hoi²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "dóu chín lohk hói"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "dou² tsin⁴⁻² lok⁹ hoi²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "dou² qin⁴⁻² log⁶ hoi²"
},
{
"ipa": "/tou̯³⁵ t͡sʰiːn²¹⁻³⁵ lɔːk̚² hɔːi̯³⁵/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/tou̯³⁵ t͡sʰiːn²¹⁻³⁵ lɔːk̚² hɔːi̯³⁵/"
}
],
"word": "倒錢落海"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 倒錢落海 meaning in Chinese (4.5kB)
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