"爛尾" meaning in Chinese

See 爛尾 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /län⁵¹ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /laːn²² mei̯¹³/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA] Forms: 烂尾 [Simplified-Chinese]
Head templates: {{zh-verb}} 爛尾
  1. (of a project, etc.) to be unable to be completed (due to rashness in decision making, shortage in money, poor management, etc.) Tags: usually Derived forms: 爛尾樓 (lànwěilóu), 烂尾楼 (lànwěilóu)
    Sense id: en-爛尾-zh-verb-8uKIX66N Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "烂尾",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "爛尾",
      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "lànwěilóu",
          "word": "爛尾樓"
        },
        {
          "roman": "lànwěilóu",
          "word": "烂尾楼"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be unable to be completed (due to rashness in decision making, shortage in money, poor management, etc.)"
      ],
      "id": "en-爛尾-zh-verb-8uKIX66N",
      "links": [
        [
          "project",
          "project"
        ],
        [
          "unable",
          "unable"
        ],
        [
          "complete",
          "complete"
        ],
        [
          "rashness",
          "rashness"
        ],
        [
          "decision making",
          "decision making"
        ],
        [
          "shortage",
          "shortage"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "poor",
          "poor"
        ],
        [
          "management",
          "management"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a project, etc.) to be unable to be completed (due to rashness in decision making, shortage in money, poor management, etc.)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a project"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lànwěi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄌㄢˋ ㄨㄟˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "laan⁶ mei⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lànwěi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄌㄢˋ ㄨㄟˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lànwěi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lan⁴-wei³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "làn-wěi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lannwoei"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lanʹvɛj",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ланьвэй"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/län⁵¹ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "laan⁶ mei⁵"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "laahn méih"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "laan⁶ mei⁵"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lan⁶ méi⁵"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/laːn²² mei̯¹³/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爛尾"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "lànwěilóu",
      "word": "爛尾樓"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lànwěilóu",
      "word": "烂尾楼"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "烂尾",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "爛尾",
      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Cantonese verbs",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 尾",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 爛",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Chinese verbs",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Mandarin verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be unable to be completed (due to rashness in decision making, shortage in money, poor management, etc.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "project",
          "project"
        ],
        [
          "unable",
          "unable"
        ],
        [
          "complete",
          "complete"
        ],
        [
          "rashness",
          "rashness"
        ],
        [
          "decision making",
          "decision making"
        ],
        [
          "shortage",
          "shortage"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "poor",
          "poor"
        ],
        [
          "management",
          "management"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a project, etc.) to be unable to be completed (due to rashness in decision making, shortage in money, poor management, etc.)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a project"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lànwěi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄌㄢˋ ㄨㄟˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "laan⁶ mei⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lànwěi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄌㄢˋ ㄨㄟˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lànwěi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lan⁴-wei³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "làn-wěi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lannwoei"
    },
    {
      "roman": "lanʹvɛj",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ланьвэй"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/län⁵¹ weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "laan⁶ mei⁵"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "laahn méih"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "laan⁶ mei⁵"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "lan⁶ méi⁵"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/laːn²² mei̯¹³/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "爛尾"
}

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