"背信棄義" meaning in Chinese

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Phrase

IPA: /peɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕin⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹⁻⁵³ i⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /puːi̯³³ sɵn³³ hei̯³³ jiː²²/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA] Forms: 背信弃义 [Simplified-Chinese]
Etymology: From Xunzi and History of the Northern Dynasties. Head templates: {{head|zh|idiom}} 背信棄義
  1. to break the faith and disregard righteousness; to act perfidiously; perfidious, treacherous; treachery, perfidy Wikipedia link: History of the Northern Dynasties, Xunzi Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-背信棄義-zh-phrase-l4xj523X Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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  "etymology_text": "From Xunzi and History of the Northern Dynasties.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "背信弃义",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to break the faith and disregard righteousness; to act perfidiously; perfidious, treacherous; treachery, perfidy"
      ],
      "id": "en-背信棄義-zh-phrase-l4xj523X",
      "links": [
        [
          "break",
          "break"
        ],
        [
          "faith",
          "faith"
        ],
        [
          "disregard",
          "disregard"
        ],
        [
          "righteousness",
          "righteousness"
        ],
        [
          "perfidiously",
          "perfidiously"
        ],
        [
          "perfidious",
          "perfidious"
        ],
        [
          "treacherous",
          "treacherous"
        ],
        [
          "treachery",
          "treachery"
        ],
        [
          "perfidy",
          "perfidy"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "History of the Northern Dynasties",
        "Xunzi"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bèixìnqìyì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄅㄟˋ ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄑㄧˋ ㄧˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bui³ seon³ hei³ ji⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bèixìnqìyì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄅㄟˋ ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄑㄧˋ ㄧˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bèisìncìyì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "pei⁴-hsin⁴-chʻi⁴-i⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bèi-syìn-chì-yì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "beyshinnchihyih"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bɛjsinʹcii",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "бэйсиньции"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/peɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕin⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹⁻⁵³ i⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bui³ seon³ hei³ ji⁶"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bui seun hei yih"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bui³ soen³ hei³ ji⁶"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bui³ sên³ héi³ yi⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/puːi̯³³ sɵn³³ hei̯³³ jiː²²/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "背信棄義"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From Xunzi and History of the Northern Dynasties.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "背信弃义",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "zh",
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      },
      "expansion": "背信棄義",
      "name": "head"
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  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
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        "Cantonese idioms",
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese idioms",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 信",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 棄",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 義",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 背",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Mandarin idioms",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to break the faith and disregard righteousness; to act perfidiously; perfidious, treacherous; treachery, perfidy"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "break",
          "break"
        ],
        [
          "faith",
          "faith"
        ],
        [
          "disregard",
          "disregard"
        ],
        [
          "righteousness",
          "righteousness"
        ],
        [
          "perfidiously",
          "perfidiously"
        ],
        [
          "perfidious",
          "perfidious"
        ],
        [
          "treacherous",
          "treacherous"
        ],
        [
          "treachery",
          "treachery"
        ],
        [
          "perfidy",
          "perfidy"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "History of the Northern Dynasties",
        "Xunzi"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bèixìnqìyì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄅㄟˋ ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄑㄧˋ ㄧˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bui³ seon³ hei³ ji⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bèixìnqìyì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄅㄟˋ ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄑㄧˋ ㄧˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bèisìncìyì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "pei⁴-hsin⁴-chʻi⁴-i⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bèi-syìn-chì-yì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "beyshinnchihyih"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bɛjsinʹcii",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "бэйсиньции"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/peɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɕin⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹⁻⁵³ i⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bui³ seon³ hei³ ji⁶"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bui seun hei yih"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bui³ soen³ hei³ ji⁶"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "bui³ sên³ héi³ yi⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/puːi̯³³ sɵn³³ hei̯³³ jiː²²/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "背信棄義"
}

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