"慘無人道" meaning in Chinese

See 慘無人道 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

IPA: /t͡sʰän²¹⁴⁻²¹ u³⁵ ʐən³⁵ tɑʊ̯⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sʰaːm³⁵ mou̯²¹ jɐn²¹ tou̯²²/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sʰaŋ³³⁻²¹ ^((Ø-))ŋu⁵³⁽⁻²¹⁾ iŋ⁵³⁻²¹ ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾nɔ²⁴²/ [Min-Dong, Fuzhou, Sinological-IPA], /t͡sʰam⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bu²⁴⁻²² lin²⁴⁻²² to²²/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen, IPA], /t͡sʰam⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bu²³⁻³³ zin²³⁻³³ tɤ³³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, IPA, Kaohsiung], /t͡sʰam⁵²⁻³⁵ bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ tau³⁵/ [Min-Nan, Teochew, Sinological-IPA] Forms: 惨无人道 [Simplified-Chinese]
Head templates: {{head|zh|idiom}} 慘無人道
  1. brutal and inhuman Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: 無天無良 [Hokkien], 无天无良 [Hokkien], 無天良, 无天良
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "惨无人道",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "慘無人道",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "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": "Eastern Min chengyu",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hokkien chengyu",
          "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"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Teochew chengyu",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Teochew terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1939 April 11, 南洋商報 [Nanyang Siang Pau], page 22:",
          "text": "cambhonangdao dui nangai dangbao dai dousua",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "brutal and inhuman"
      ],
      "id": "en-慘無人道-zh-phrase-Jf~e7mao",
      "links": [
        [
          "brutal",
          "brutal"
        ],
        [
          "inhuman",
          "inhuman"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "無天無良"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "无天无良"
        },
        {
          "word": "無天良"
        },
        {
          "word": "无天良"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cǎnwúréndào"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄘㄢˇ ㄨˊ ㄖㄣˊ ㄉㄠˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "caam² mou⁴ jan⁴ dou⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Dong",
        "Foochow-Romanized"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chāng-ù-ìng-dô̤"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chhám-bû-lîn-tō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chhám-bû-jîn-tō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Peng'im"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cam² bho⁵ nang⁵ dao⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cǎnwúréndào"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄘㄢˇ ㄨˊ ㄖㄣˊ ㄉㄠˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cǎnwúréndào"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsʻan³-wu²-jên²-tao⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsǎn-wú-rén-dàu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsaanwurendaw"
    },
    {
      "roman": "canʹužɛnʹdao",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "цаньужэньдао"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰän²¹⁴⁻²¹ u³⁵ ʐən³⁵ tɑʊ̯⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "caam² mou⁴ jan⁴ dou⁶"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cháam mòuh yàhn douh"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsaam² mou⁴ jan⁴ dou⁶"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cam² mou⁴ yen⁴ dou⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰaːm³⁵ mou̯²¹ jɐn²¹ tou̯²²/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Dong",
        "Fuzhou",
        "Foochow-Romanized"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chāng-ù-ìng-dô̤"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰaŋ³³⁻²¹ ^((Ø-))ŋu⁵³⁽⁻²¹⁾ iŋ⁵³⁻²¹ ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾nɔ²⁴²/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Dong",
        "Fuzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chhám-bû-lîn-tō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tshám-bû-lîn-tō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zhafmbulindoi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰam⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bu²⁴⁻²² lin²⁴⁻²² to²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chhám-bû-jîn-tō"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tshám-bû-jîn-tō"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zhafmbujindoi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰam⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bu²³⁻³³ zin²³⁻³³ tɤ³³/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Peng'im"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cam² bho⁵ nang⁵ dao⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tshám bô nâng tău"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰam⁵²⁻³⁵ bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ tau³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "慘無人道"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "惨无人道",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "慘無人道",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "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 人",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 慘",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 無",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 道",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Chinese terms with quotations",
        "Eastern Min chengyu",
        "Eastern Min idioms",
        "Eastern Min lemmas",
        "Hokkien chengyu",
        "Hokkien idioms",
        "Hokkien lemmas",
        "Mandarin chengyu",
        "Mandarin idioms",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Teochew chengyu",
        "Teochew idioms",
        "Teochew lemmas",
        "Teochew terms with non-redundant manual script codes",
        "Teochew terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              13
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1939 April 11, 南洋商報 [Nanyang Siang Pau], page 22:",
          "text": "cambhonangdao dui nangai dangbao dai dousua",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "brutal and inhuman"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "brutal",
          "brutal"
        ],
        [
          "inhuman",
          "inhuman"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cǎnwúréndào"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄘㄢˇ ㄨˊ ㄖㄣˊ ㄉㄠˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "caam² mou⁴ jan⁴ dou⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Dong",
        "Foochow-Romanized"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chāng-ù-ìng-dô̤"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chhám-bû-lîn-tō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chhám-bû-jîn-tō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Peng'im"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cam² bho⁵ nang⁵ dao⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cǎnwúréndào"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄘㄢˇ ㄨˊ ㄖㄣˊ ㄉㄠˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cǎnwúréndào"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsʻan³-wu²-jên²-tao⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsǎn-wú-rén-dàu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsaanwurendaw"
    },
    {
      "roman": "canʹužɛnʹdao",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "цаньужэньдао"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰän²¹⁴⁻²¹ u³⁵ ʐən³⁵ tɑʊ̯⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "caam² mou⁴ jan⁴ dou⁶"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cháam mòuh yàhn douh"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tsaam² mou⁴ jan⁴ dou⁶"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cam² mou⁴ yen⁴ dou⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰaːm³⁵ mou̯²¹ jɐn²¹ tou̯²²/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Dong",
        "Fuzhou",
        "Foochow-Romanized"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chāng-ù-ìng-dô̤"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰaŋ³³⁻²¹ ^((Ø-))ŋu⁵³⁽⁻²¹⁾ iŋ⁵³⁻²¹ ⁽ᵗ⁻⁾nɔ²⁴²/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Dong",
        "Fuzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chhám-bû-lîn-tō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tshám-bû-lîn-tō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zhafmbulindoi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰam⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bu²⁴⁻²² lin²⁴⁻²² to²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chhám-bû-jîn-tō"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tshám-bû-jîn-tō"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "zhafmbujindoi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰam⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bu²³⁻³³ zin²³⁻³³ tɤ³³/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "General Taiwanese"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Peng'im"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "cam² bho⁵ nang⁵ dao⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "tshám bô nâng tău"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡sʰam⁵²⁻³⁵ bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ tau³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Teochew",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "無天無良"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "无天无良"
    },
    {
      "word": "無天良"
    },
    {
      "word": "无天良"
    }
  ],
  "word": "慘無人道"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 慘無人道 meaning in Chinese (4.9kB)

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "慘無人道"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "idiom",
  "title": "慘無人道",
  "trace": "started on line 1, detected on line 1"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "慘無人道"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "idiom",
  "title": "慘無人道",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (0c45963 and 3c020d2). 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.