"刻骨銘心" meaning in Chinese

See 刻骨銘心 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

IPA: /kʰɤ⁵¹ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ miŋ³⁵ ɕin⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /hɐk̚⁵ kʷɐt̚⁵ mɪŋ¹³ sɐm⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA], /hɐk̚⁵ kʷɐt̚⁵ mɪŋ²¹ sɐm⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA] Forms: 刻骨铭心 [Simplified-Chinese]
Head templates: {{head|zh|idiom}} 刻骨銘心
  1. unforgettable; etched in one's memory Tags: idiomatic
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "hone ni kizami, kimo ni meizuru",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "骨",
          "ほね"
        ],
        [
          "刻",
          "きざ"
        ],
        [
          "肝",
          "きも"
        ],
        [
          "銘",
          "めい"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "骨に刻み、肝に銘ずる"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "刻骨铭心",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "刻骨銘心",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "carved on one's bones and engraved in one's heart",
  "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": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unforgettable; etched in one's memory"
      ],
      "id": "en-刻骨銘心-zh-phrase-r8UiMZtT",
      "links": [
        [
          "unforgettable",
          "unforgettable"
        ],
        [
          "etch",
          "etch"
        ],
        [
          "memory",
          "memory"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "kègǔmíngxīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄎㄜˋ ㄍㄨˇ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hak¹ gwat¹ ming⁵ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hak¹ gwat¹ ming⁴ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "kègǔmíngxīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄎㄜˋ ㄍㄨˇ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "kègǔmíngsin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "kʻo⁴-ku³-ming²-hsin¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "kè-gǔ-míng-syīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "kehguumingshin"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kɛguminsinʹ",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "кэгуминсинь"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁵¹ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ miŋ³⁵ ɕin⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hak¹ gwat¹ ming⁵ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hak¹ gwat¹ ming⁴ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hāk gwāt míhng sām"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hāk gwāt mìhng sām"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hak⁷ gwat⁷ ming⁵ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hak⁷ gwat⁷ ming⁴ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "heg¹ gued¹ ming⁵ sem¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "heg¹ gued¹ ming⁴ sem¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɐk̚⁵ kʷɐt̚⁵ mɪŋ¹³ sɐm⁵⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɐk̚⁵ kʷɐt̚⁵ mɪŋ²¹ sɐm⁵⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "刻骨銘心"
}
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "hone ni kizami, kimo ni meizuru",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "骨",
          "ほね"
        ],
        [
          "刻",
          "きざ"
        ],
        [
          "肝",
          "きも"
        ],
        [
          "銘",
          "めい"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "骨に刻み、肝に銘ずる"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "刻骨铭心",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "刻骨銘心",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "carved on one's bones and engraved in one's heart",
  "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 刻",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 心",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 銘",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 骨",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Mandarin chengyu",
        "Mandarin idioms",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unforgettable; etched in one's memory"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unforgettable",
          "unforgettable"
        ],
        [
          "etch",
          "etch"
        ],
        [
          "memory",
          "memory"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "kègǔmíngxīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄎㄜˋ ㄍㄨˇ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hak¹ gwat¹ ming⁵ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hak¹ gwat¹ ming⁴ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "kègǔmíngxīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄎㄜˋ ㄍㄨˇ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄒㄧㄣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "kègǔmíngsin"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "kʻo⁴-ku³-ming²-hsin¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "kè-gǔ-míng-syīn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "kehguumingshin"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kɛguminsinʹ",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "кэгуминсинь"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁵¹ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹ miŋ³⁵ ɕin⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hak¹ gwat¹ ming⁵ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hak¹ gwat¹ ming⁴ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hāk gwāt míhng sām"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hāk gwāt mìhng sām"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hak⁷ gwat⁷ ming⁵ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hak⁷ gwat⁷ ming⁴ sam¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "heg¹ gued¹ ming⁵ sem¹"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "heg¹ gued¹ ming⁴ sem¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɐk̚⁵ kʷɐt̚⁵ mɪŋ¹³ sɐm⁵⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɐk̚⁵ kʷɐt̚⁵ mɪŋ²¹ sɐm⁵⁵/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "刻骨銘心"
}

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