See 瓜田李下 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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}
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"literal_meaning": "under a plum tree or in a melon patch",
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"zh_pron": "ㄍㄨㄚ ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄌㄧˇ ㄒㄧㄚˋ"
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},
{
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"zh_pron": "guatiánlǐsià"
},
{
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"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Wade-Giles"
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"zh_pron": "kua¹-tʻien²-li³-hsia⁴"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
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],
"zh_pron": "gwā-tyán-lǐ-syà"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
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},
{
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"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Palladius"
],
"zh_pron": "гуатяньлися"
},
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"Chinese terms spelled with 下",
"Chinese terms spelled with 李",
"Chinese terms spelled with 瓜",
"Chinese terms spelled with 田",
"Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Mandarin chengyu",
"Mandarin idioms",
"Mandarin lemmas",
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},
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"Mandarin",
"Bopomofo"
],
"zh_pron": "ㄍㄨㄚ ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄌㄧˇ ㄒㄧㄚˋ"
},
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"zh_pron": "guātiánlǐxià"
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"zh_pron": "ㄍㄨㄚ ㄊㄧㄢˊ ㄌㄧˇ ㄒㄧㄚˋ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Tongyong-Pinyin"
],
"zh_pron": "guatiánlǐsià"
},
{
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"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
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],
"zh_pron": "kua¹-tʻien²-li³-hsia⁴"
},
{
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"zh_pron": "gwā-tyán-lǐ-syà"
},
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},
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"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Standard-Chinese",
"Palladius"
],
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},
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"tags": [
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"Sinological-IPA"
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"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh_pron": "gua¹ tin⁴ léi⁵ ha⁶"
},
{
"ipa": "/kʷaː⁵⁵ tʰiːn²¹ lei̯¹³ haː²²/",
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"word": "瓜田李下"
}
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