See 提心吊膽 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "提心弔膽",
"tags": [
"Traditional-Chinese"
]
},
{
"form": "提心吊胆",
"tags": [
"Simplified-Chinese"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "idiom"
},
"expansion": "提心吊膽",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"literal_meaning": "to carry the heart and hang the gallbladder",
"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": "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"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to be on tenterhooks; to be scared or jittery; to be in constant fear"
],
"id": "en-提心吊膽-zh-phrase-0OSAWqQu",
"links": [
[
"on tenterhooks",
"on tenterhooks"
],
[
"scared",
"scared"
],
[
"jittery",
"jittery"
],
[
"constant",
"constant"
],
[
"fear",
"fear"
]
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "tíxīndiàodǎn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄊㄧˊ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄉㄧㄠˋ ㄉㄢˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "tai⁴ sam¹ diu³ daam²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "thê-sim-tiàu-táⁿ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "tíxīndiàodǎn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄊㄧˊ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄉㄧㄠˋ ㄉㄢˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "tísindiàodǎn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh_pron": "tʻi²-hsin¹-tiao⁴-tan³"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "tí-syīn-dyàu-dǎn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
],
"zh_pron": "tyishindiawdaan"
},
{
"roman": "tisinʹdjaodanʹ",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Palladius"
],
"zh_pron": "тисиньдяодань"
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰi³⁵ ɕin⁵⁵ ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ tän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "tai⁴ sam¹ diu³ daam²"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "tàih sām diu dáam"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "tai⁴ sam¹ diu³ daam²"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh_pron": "tei⁴ sem¹ diu³ dam²"
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰɐi̯²¹ sɐm⁵⁵ tiːu̯³³ taːm³⁵/",
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "thê-sim-tiàu-táⁿ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh_pron": "thê-sim-tiàu-tánn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh_pron": "tesimdiao'dvar"
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰe²⁴⁻²² sim⁴⁴⁻²² tiau²¹⁻⁵³ tã⁵³/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Xiamen"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰe²⁴⁻²² sim³³ tiau⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tã⁵⁵⁴/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Quanzhou"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰe¹³⁻²² sim⁴⁴⁻²² tiau²¹⁻⁵³ tã⁵³/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Zhangzhou"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰe²⁴⁻¹¹ sim⁴⁴⁻³³ tiau¹¹⁻⁵³ tã⁵³/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Taipei"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰe²³⁻³³ sim⁴⁴⁻³³ tiau²¹⁻⁴¹ tã⁴¹/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Kaohsiung"
]
}
],
"word": "提心吊膽"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "提心弔膽",
"tags": [
"Traditional-Chinese"
]
},
{
"form": "提心吊胆",
"tags": [
"Simplified-Chinese"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "zh",
"2": "idiom"
},
"expansion": "提心吊膽",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"literal_meaning": "to carry the heart and hang the gallbladder",
"pos": "phrase",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Advanced Mandarin",
"Cantonese chengyu",
"Cantonese idioms",
"Cantonese lemmas",
"Chinese chengyu",
"Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
"Chinese idioms",
"Chinese lemmas",
"Chinese terms spelled with 吊",
"Chinese terms spelled with 心",
"Chinese terms spelled with 提",
"Chinese terms spelled with 膽",
"Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Hokkien chengyu",
"Hokkien idioms",
"Hokkien lemmas",
"Mandarin chengyu",
"Mandarin idioms",
"Mandarin lemmas",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"to be on tenterhooks; to be scared or jittery; to be in constant fear"
],
"links": [
[
"on tenterhooks",
"on tenterhooks"
],
[
"scared",
"scared"
],
[
"jittery",
"jittery"
],
[
"constant",
"constant"
],
[
"fear",
"fear"
]
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "tíxīndiàodǎn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄊㄧˊ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄉㄧㄠˋ ㄉㄢˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "tai⁴ sam¹ diu³ daam²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "thê-sim-tiàu-táⁿ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "tíxīndiàodǎn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄊㄧˊ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄉㄧㄠˋ ㄉㄢˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "tísindiàodǎn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Wade-Giles"
],
"zh_pron": "tʻi²-hsin¹-tiao⁴-tan³"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "tí-syīn-dyàu-dǎn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
],
"zh_pron": "tyishindiawdaan"
},
{
"roman": "tisinʹdjaodanʹ",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Palladius"
],
"zh_pron": "тисиньдяодань"
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰi³⁵ ɕin⁵⁵ ti̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹ tän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh_pron": "tai⁴ sam¹ diu³ daam²"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Yale"
],
"zh_pron": "tàih sām diu dáam"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "tai⁴ sam¹ diu³ daam²"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh_pron": "tei⁴ sem¹ diu³ dam²"
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰɐi̯²¹ sɐm⁵⁵ tiːu̯³³ taːm³⁵/",
"raw_tags": [
"Standard-Cantonese",
"Hong Kong"
],
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"POJ"
],
"zh_pron": "thê-sim-tiàu-táⁿ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh_pron": "thê-sim-tiàu-tánn"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh_pron": "tesimdiao'dvar"
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰe²⁴⁻²² sim⁴⁴⁻²² tiau²¹⁻⁵³ tã⁵³/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Xiamen"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰe²⁴⁻²² sim³³ tiau⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tã⁵⁵⁴/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Quanzhou"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰe¹³⁻²² sim⁴⁴⁻²² tiau²¹⁻⁵³ tã⁵³/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Zhangzhou"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰe²⁴⁻¹¹ sim⁴⁴⁻³³ tiau¹¹⁻⁵³ tã⁵³/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Taipei"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/tʰe²³⁻³³ sim⁴⁴⁻³³ tiau²¹⁻⁴¹ tã⁴¹/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Hokkien",
"IPA",
"Kaohsiung"
]
}
],
"word": "提心吊膽"
}
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