"瞞天過海" meaning in Chinese

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "瞒天过海",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "瞞天過海",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "to cross the sea without the sky knowing",
  "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": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "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"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Thirty-Six Stratagems",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "You can't get away with it.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Double Indemnity, 1944 (OpenSubtitles)",
          "roman": "Nǐ wúfǎ mántiānguòhǎi.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "你無法瞞天過海。",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "You can't get away with it.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Double Indemnity, 1944 (OpenSubtitles)",
          "roman": "Nǐ wúfǎ mántiānguòhǎi.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "你无法瞒天过海。",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "If he didn't order this investigation, she could have flown under the radar for years.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Glass Houses, 2011 (OpenSubtitles)",
          "roman": "yàoshì tā méiyǒu xiàlìng zuò zhège diàochá tā běn kěyǐ mántiānguòhǎi hǎoduō nián",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "要是他沒有下令做這個調查她本可以瞞天過海好多年",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "If he didn't order this investigation, she could have flown under the radar for years.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Glass Houses, 2011 (OpenSubtitles)",
          "roman": "yàoshì tā méiyǒu xiàlìng zuò zhège diàochá tā běn kěyǐ mántiānguòhǎi hǎoduō nián",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "要是他没有下令做这个调查她本可以瞒天过海好多年",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to achieve one's aim underhandedly"
      ],
      "id": "en-瞞天過海-zh-phrase--BUUcfVo",
      "links": [
        [
          "achieve",
          "achieve"
        ],
        [
          "aim",
          "aim"
        ],
        [
          "underhandedly",
          "underhandedly"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mántiānguòhǎi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄢˊ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄍㄨㄛˋ ㄏㄞˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mun⁴ tin¹ gwo³ hoi²"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "boân-thian-kò-hái"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "môa-thiⁿ-kè-hái"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "môa-thiⁿ-kòe-hái"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "môa-thian-kòe-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mántiānguòhǎi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mántianguòhǎi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "man²-tʻien¹-kuo⁴-hai³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mán-tyān-gwò-hǎi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mantianguohhae"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "маньтяньгохай"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "manʹtjanʹgoxaj"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/män³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ku̯ɔ⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mùhn tīn gwo hói"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mun⁴ tin¹ gwo³ hoi²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mun⁴ tin¹ guo³ hoi²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muːn²¹ tʰiːn⁵⁵ kʷɔː³³ hɔːi̯³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "boân-thian-kò-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "buân-thian-kò-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "boantienkoirhae"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/buan²⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴ ko²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "môa-thiⁿ-kè-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "muâ-thinn-kè-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "moa'tvi'kea'hae"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²⁴⁻²² tʰĩ⁴⁴ ke²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²⁴⁻¹¹ tʰĩ⁴⁴ ke¹¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "môa-thiⁿ-kòe-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "muâ-thinn-kuè-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "moa'tvi'koea'hae"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²³⁻³³ tʰĩ⁴⁴ kue²¹⁻⁴¹ hai⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "môa-thian-kòe-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "muâ-thian-kuè-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "moa'tienkoea'hae"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴ kue²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tainan"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/ môa-thiⁿ-kè-hái /"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/män³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ku̯ɔ⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muːn²¹ tʰiːn⁵⁵ kʷɔː³³ hɔːi̯³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/buan²⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴ ko²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²⁴⁻²² tʰĩ⁴⁴ ke²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²⁴⁻¹¹ tʰĩ⁴⁴ ke¹¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²³⁻³³ tʰĩ⁴⁴ kue²¹⁻⁴¹ hai⁴¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴ kue²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "瞞天過海"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "瞒天过海",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "瞞天過海",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "to cross the sea without the sky knowing",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese chengyu",
        "Cantonese idioms",
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Chinese chengyu",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese idioms",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 天",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 海",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 瞞",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 過",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Hokkien chengyu",
        "Hokkien idioms",
        "Hokkien lemmas",
        "Mandarin chengyu",
        "Mandarin idioms",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Mandarin terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Thirty-Six Stratagems"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "You can't get away with it.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Double Indemnity, 1944 (OpenSubtitles)",
          "roman": "Nǐ wúfǎ mántiānguòhǎi.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "你無法瞞天過海。",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "You can't get away with it.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Double Indemnity, 1944 (OpenSubtitles)",
          "roman": "Nǐ wúfǎ mántiānguòhǎi.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "你无法瞒天过海。",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "If he didn't order this investigation, she could have flown under the radar for years.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Glass Houses, 2011 (OpenSubtitles)",
          "roman": "yàoshì tā méiyǒu xiàlìng zuò zhège diàochá tā běn kěyǐ mántiānguòhǎi hǎoduō nián",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "要是他沒有下令做這個調查她本可以瞞天過海好多年",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "If he didn't order this investigation, she could have flown under the radar for years.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "ref": " Glass Houses, 2011 (OpenSubtitles)",
          "roman": "yàoshì tā méiyǒu xiàlìng zuò zhège diàochá tā běn kěyǐ mántiānguòhǎi hǎoduō nián",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "要是他没有下令做这个调查她本可以瞒天过海好多年",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to achieve one's aim underhandedly"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "achieve",
          "achieve"
        ],
        [
          "aim",
          "aim"
        ],
        [
          "underhandedly",
          "underhandedly"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mántiānguòhǎi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄢˊ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄍㄨㄛˋ ㄏㄞˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mun⁴ tin¹ gwo³ hoi²"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "boân-thian-kò-hái"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "môa-thiⁿ-kè-hái"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "môa-thiⁿ-kòe-hái"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "môa-thian-kòe-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mántiānguòhǎi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mántianguòhǎi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "man²-tʻien¹-kuo⁴-hai³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mán-tyān-gwò-hǎi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mantianguohhae"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "маньтяньгохай"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "manʹtjanʹgoxaj"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/män³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ku̯ɔ⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mùhn tīn gwo hói"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mun⁴ tin¹ gwo³ hoi²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mun⁴ tin¹ guo³ hoi²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muːn²¹ tʰiːn⁵⁵ kʷɔː³³ hɔːi̯³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "boân-thian-kò-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "buân-thian-kò-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "boantienkoirhae"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/buan²⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴ ko²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "môa-thiⁿ-kè-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "muâ-thinn-kè-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "moa'tvi'kea'hae"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²⁴⁻²² tʰĩ⁴⁴ ke²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²⁴⁻¹¹ tʰĩ⁴⁴ ke¹¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "môa-thiⁿ-kòe-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "muâ-thinn-kuè-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "moa'tvi'koea'hae"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²³⁻³³ tʰĩ⁴⁴ kue²¹⁻⁴¹ hai⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "môa-thian-kòe-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "muâ-thian-kuè-hái"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "moa'tienkoea'hae"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴ kue²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tainan"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/ môa-thiⁿ-kè-hái /"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/män³⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ku̯ɔ⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muːn²¹ tʰiːn⁵⁵ kʷɔː³³ hɔːi̯³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/buan²⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴ ko²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²⁴⁻²² tʰĩ⁴⁴ ke²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²⁴⁻¹¹ tʰĩ⁴⁴ ke¹¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²³⁻³³ tʰĩ⁴⁴ kue²¹⁻⁴¹ hai⁴¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muã²⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴ kue²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "瞞天過海"
}

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  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Chinese)⁺'",
  "path": [
    "瞞天過海"
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