See 化腐朽為神奇 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"zh-pron": "xua fusju vɛj šɛnʹci"
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"zh-pron": "xua fusju vɛj šɛnʹci"
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"ipa": "/xu̯ä⁵¹ fu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ weɪ̯³⁵ ʂən³⁵ t͡ɕʰi³⁵/",
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"zh-pron": "fa³ fu⁶ neo² wei⁴ sen⁴ kéi⁴"
},
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"ipa": "/faː³³ fuː²² nɐu̯³⁵ wɐi̯²¹ sɐn²¹ kʰei̯²¹/",
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"ipa": "/xu̯ä⁵¹ fu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ weɪ̯³⁵ ʂən³⁵ t͡ɕʰi³⁵/"
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"word": "化腐為奇／化腐为奇"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.