"美人照鏡" meaning in Chinese

See 美人照鏡 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

IPA: /mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹ t͡siːu̯³³ kɛːŋ³³/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹ t͡siːu̯³³ kɛːŋ³³/ Chinese transliterations: mei⁵ jan⁴ ziu³ geng³ [Cantonese, Jyutping], méih yàhn jiu geng [Cantonese, Yale], mei⁵ jan⁴ dziu³ geng³ [Cantonese, Pinyin], méi⁵ yen⁴ jiu³ géng³ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization] Forms: 美人照镜
Head templates: {{head|zh|phrase}} 美人照鏡
  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, idiomatic) to finish one's plate; to have eaten all one's food for a meal Tags: Cantonese, Hong-Kong, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-美人照鏡-zh-phrase-Hpa-1aLb Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Hong Kong Cantonese, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "美人照镜",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "美人照鏡",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "a beauty looks into the mirror",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Hong Kong Cantonese",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to finish one's plate; to have eaten all one's food for a meal"
      ],
      "id": "en-美人照鏡-zh-phrase-Hpa-1aLb",
      "links": [
        [
          "finish",
          "finish"
        ],
        [
          "plate",
          "plate"
        ],
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ],
        [
          "meal",
          "meal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Hong Kong Cantonese, idiomatic) to finish one's plate; to have eaten all one's food for a meal"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mei⁵ jan⁴ ziu³ geng³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méih yàhn jiu geng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mei⁵ jan⁴ dziu³ geng³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méi⁵ yen⁴ jiu³ géng³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹ t͡siːu̯³³ kɛːŋ³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹ t͡siːu̯³³ kɛːŋ³³/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "美人照鏡"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "美人照镜",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "美人照鏡",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "a beauty looks into the mirror",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Cantonese phrases",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese idioms",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese phrases",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 人",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 照",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 美",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 鏡",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Hong Kong Cantonese",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to finish one's plate; to have eaten all one's food for a meal"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "finish",
          "finish"
        ],
        [
          "plate",
          "plate"
        ],
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ],
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ],
        [
          "meal",
          "meal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Hong Kong Cantonese, idiomatic) to finish one's plate; to have eaten all one's food for a meal"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mei⁵ jan⁴ ziu³ geng³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méih yàhn jiu geng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mei⁵ jan⁴ dziu³ geng³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méi⁵ yen⁴ jiu³ géng³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹ t͡siːu̯³³ kɛːŋ³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹ t͡siːu̯³³ kɛːŋ³³/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "美人照鏡"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 美人照鏡 meaning in Chinese (1.5kB)

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺'",
  "path": [
    "美人照鏡"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "美人照鏡",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). 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.