"耍太極" meaning in Chinese

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Verb

IPA: /saː³⁵ tʰaːi̯³³ kɪk̚²/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Sinological-IPA], /saː³⁵ tʰaːi̯³³ kɪk̚²/ Chinese transliterations: saa² taai³ gik⁶ [Cantonese, Jyutping], saa² taai³ gik⁶ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Jyutping], sá taai gihk [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Yale], saa² taai³ gik⁹ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Pinyin], sa² tai³ gig⁶ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong] Forms: 耍⫽太極 [canonical]
Head templates: {{zh-verb|type=vo}} 耍⫽太極 (verb-object)
  1. (Cantonese, literally) to practise tai chi Tags: Cantonese, literally, verb-object
    Sense id: en-耍太極-zh-verb-gcFHcEtd Categories (other): Cantonese Chinese
  2. (Cantonese, figurative) to evade a question or issue; to prevaricate; to avoid the issue and shirk responsibility Tags: Cantonese, figuratively, verb-object
    Sense id: en-耍太極-zh-verb-UBIqCFth Categories (other): Cantonese Chinese
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 打太極/打太极 (dǎ tàijí), 打太極拳/打太极拳 (dǎ tàijíquán), 打太極 (dǎ tàijí), 打太极 (dǎ tàijí), 打太極拳 (dǎ tàijíquán), 打太极拳 (dǎ tàijíquán)

Alternative forms

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          "english": "Those officials only ever beat around the bush without actually addressing the questions.",
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          "text": "啲官成日答非所问,净系识得耍太极。 [Cantonese, simp.]\ndi¹ gun¹ seng⁴ jat⁶ daap³ fei¹ so² man⁶, zing⁶ hai⁶ sik¹ dak¹ saa² taai³ gik⁶. [Jyutping]",
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      "roman": "dǎ tàijí",
      "word": "打太極/打太极"
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      "roman": "dǎ tàijíquán",
      "word": "打太極拳/打太极拳"
    },
    {
      "roman": "dǎ tàijí",
      "word": "打太極"
    },
    {
      "roman": "dǎ tàijí",
      "word": "打太极"
    },
    {
      "roman": "dǎ tàijíquán",
      "word": "打太極拳"
    },
    {
      "roman": "dǎ tàijíquán",
      "word": "打太极拳"
    }
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  "word": "耍太極"
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