滾水淥豬腸 in Chinese

IPA: /kʷɐn³⁵ sɵy̯³⁵ lʊk̚² t͡syː⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹⁻³⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /kʷɐn³⁵ sɵy̯³⁵ lʊk̚² t͡syː⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹⁻³⁵/ Chinese transliterations: gwan² seoi² luk⁶ zyu¹ coeng⁴⁻² [Cantonese, Jyutping], gwán séui luhk jyū chéung [Cantonese, Yale], gwan² soey² luk⁹ dzy¹ tsoeng⁴⁻² [Cantonese, Pinyin], guen² sêu² lug⁶ ju¹ cêng⁴⁻² [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: A piece of pork intestine shrinks on both sides when it is cooked with boiling water, and is used as a metaphor for decrease in income and expense. Head templates: {{head|zh|idiom}} 滾水淥豬腸

[Show JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "A piece of pork intestine shrinks on both sides when it is cooked with boiling water, and is used as a metaphor for decrease in income and expense.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "滾水淥豬腸",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Cantonese Chinese",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the situation when someone has to control his/her expenses due to decrease in income"
      ],
      "id": "en-滾水淥豬腸-zh-phrase-dAiIozxC",
      "links": [
        [
          "expenses",
          "expenses"
        ],
        [
          "decrease",
          "decrease"
        ],
        [
          "income",
          "income"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cantonese) the situation when someone has to control his/her expenses due to decrease in income"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "gwan² seoi² luk⁶ zyu¹ coeng⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "gwán séui luhk jyū chéung"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "gwan² soey² luk⁹ dzy¹ tsoeng⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "guen² sêu² lug⁶ ju¹ cêng⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʷɐn³⁵ sɵy̯³⁵ lʊk̚² t͡syː⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹⁻³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʷɐn³⁵ sɵy̯³⁵ lʊk̚² t͡syː⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹⁻³⁵/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "滾水淥豬腸"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "A piece of pork intestine shrinks on both sides when it is cooked with boiling water, and is used as a metaphor for decrease in income and expense.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "滾水淥豬腸",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese Chinese",
        "Cantonese idioms",
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese idioms",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the situation when someone has to control his/her expenses due to decrease in income"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "expenses",
          "expenses"
        ],
        [
          "decrease",
          "decrease"
        ],
        [
          "income",
          "income"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cantonese) the situation when someone has to control his/her expenses due to decrease in income"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "gwan² seoi² luk⁶ zyu¹ coeng⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "gwán séui luhk jyū chéung"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "gwan² soey² luk⁹ dzy¹ tsoeng⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "guen² sêu² lug⁶ ju¹ cêng⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʷɐn³⁵ sɵy̯³⁵ lʊk̚² t͡syː⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹⁻³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʷɐn³⁵ sɵy̯³⁵ lʊk̚² t͡syː⁵⁵ t͡sʰœːŋ²¹⁻³⁵/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "滾水淥豬腸"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.

"滾水淥豬腸" meaning in Chinese

Phrase