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"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
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"parents": [
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"derived": [
{
"roman": "sàiwēng shī mǎ, yānzhī fēi fú",
"word": "塞翁失馬，焉知非福／塞翁失马，焉知非福"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "While you do not know life, how can you know about death?",
"ref": "未知生，焉知死。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]",
"text": "From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version\nWèizhī shēng, yānzhī sǐ. [Pinyin]",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"how is one to know"
],
"id": "en-焉知-zh-adv-eOBaKVlr",
"raw_glosses": [
"(literary) how is one to know"
],
"tags": [
"literary"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "yānzhī"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄧㄢ ㄓ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "jin¹ zi¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yānzhī"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄧㄢ ㄓ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yanjhih"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yen¹-chih¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yān-jr̄"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ianjy"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "яньчжи"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "janʹčži"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛn⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Hong-Kong",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "jin¹ zi¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Hong-Kong",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "yīn jī"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Hong-Kong",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "jin¹ dzi¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization",
"Guangzhou",
"Hong-Kong"
],
"zh-pron": "yin¹ ji¹"
},
{
"ipa": "/jiːn⁵⁵ t͡siː⁵⁵/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Hong-Kong",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛn⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/jiːn⁵⁵ t͡siː⁵⁵/"
}
],
"word": "焉知"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"roman": "sàiwēng shī mǎ, yānzhī fēi fú",
"word": "塞翁失馬，焉知非福／塞翁失马，焉知非福"
}
],
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"pos": "adv",
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"Cantonese lemmas",
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"Chinese literary terms",
"Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"Mandarin adverbs",
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],
"examples": [
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"english": "While you do not know life, how can you know about death?",
"ref": "未知生，焉知死。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]",
"text": "From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version\nWèizhī shēng, yānzhī sǐ. [Pinyin]",
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"how is one to know"
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"(literary) how is one to know"
],
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]
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"zh-pron": "yānzhī"
},
{
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"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄧㄢ ㄓ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "jin¹ zi¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yānzhī"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄧㄢ ㄓ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yanjhih"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yen¹-chih¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "yān-jr̄"
},
{
"tags": [
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"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ianjy"
},
{
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"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "яньчжи"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "janʹčži"
},
{
"ipa": "/jɛn⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/",
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"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Hong-Kong",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "jin¹ zi¹"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Hong-Kong",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "yīn jī"
},
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"Cantonese",
"Guangzhou",
"Hong-Kong",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "jin¹ dzi¹"
},
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"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization",
"Guangzhou",
"Hong-Kong"
],
"zh-pron": "yin¹ ji¹"
},
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"ipa": "/jiːn⁵⁵ t͡siː⁵⁵/",
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"Guangzhou",
"Hong-Kong",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
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"ipa": "/jɛn⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/jiːn⁵⁵ t͡siː⁵⁵/"
}
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