"善男信女" meaning in 漢語

See 善男信女 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

IPA: /ʂän⁵¹ nän³⁵ ɕin⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /siːn²² naːm²¹ sɵn³³ nɵy̯¹³⁻³⁵/ [Cantonese, Standard-Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, IPA], /siːn²² naːm²¹ sɵn³³ nɵy̯¹³/ [Cantonese, Standard-Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, IPA], /si̯ɛn³³⁻¹¹ lam²⁴⁻¹¹ sin¹¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen, Taiwanese, general, IPA, Taibei], /si̯ɛn³³⁻²¹ lam²³⁻³³ sin²¹⁻⁴¹ lu⁴¹/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen, Taiwanese, general, IPA, Kaohsiung], /si̯ɛn²²⁻²¹ lam²⁴⁻²² sin²¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen, Taiwanese, general, IPA], /si̯ɛn⁴¹⁻²² lam²⁴⁻²² sin⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ lɯ⁵⁵⁴/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Quanzhou, IPA], /si̯ɛn²²⁻²¹ lam¹³⁻²² sin²¹⁻⁵³ li⁵³/ [Min-Nan, Hokkien, Zhangzhou, IPA]
  1. 佛家稱信仰佛教的人，道教亦沿用之
    Sense id: zh-善男信女-zh-phrase-DNbDu4V8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): 官話成語, 官話詞元, 帶「信」的漢語詞, 帶「善」的漢語詞, 帶「女」的漢語詞, 帶「男」的漢語詞, 有2個詞條的頁面, 有國際音標的漢語詞, 有詞條的頁面, 泉漳話成語, 泉漳話詞元, 漢語成語, 漢語詞元, 粵語成語, 粵語詞元
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      "name": "官話成語",
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "官話詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "帶「信」的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "帶「善」的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "帶「女」的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "帶「男」的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有2個詞條的頁面",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有國際音標的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有詞條的頁面",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "泉漳話成語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "泉漳話詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "漢語成語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "漢語詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "粵語成語",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "粵語詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "越南語",
      "lang_code": "vi",
      "raw_tags": [
        "借詞"
      ],
      "roman": "善男信女",
      "word": "thiện nam tín nữ"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "漢語",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "有德行的男人，堅貞的女人",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "pos_title": "成語",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "佛家稱信仰佛教的人，道教亦沿用之"
      ],
      "id": "zh-善男信女-zh-phrase-DNbDu4V8"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shànnán xìnnǚ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄕㄢˋ ㄋㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄋㄩˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin⁶ naam⁴ seon³ neoi⁵⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin⁶ naam⁴ seon³ neoi⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lír"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shànnán xìnnǚ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄕㄢˋ ㄋㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄋㄩˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shànnán sìnnyǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade–Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shan⁴-nan² hsin⁴-nü³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shàn-nán syìn-nyǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shannnan shinnneu"
    },
    {
      "roman": "šanʹnanʹ sinʹnjuj",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "шаньнань синьнюй"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʂän⁵¹ nän³⁵ ɕin⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin⁶ naam⁴ seon³ neoi⁵⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin⁶ naam⁴ seon³ neoi⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Yale",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sihn nàahm seun néui"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Yale",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sihn nàahm seun néuih"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin⁶ naam⁴ soen³ noey⁵⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin⁶ naam⁴ soen³ noey⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xin⁶ nam⁴ sên³ nêu⁵⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xin⁶ nam⁴ sên³ nêu⁵"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siːn²² naːm²¹ sɵn³³ nɵy̯¹³⁻³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siːn²² naːm²¹ sɵn³³ nɵy̯¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Taiwanese",
        "general",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Taiwanese",
        "general",
        "Tâi-lô"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Taiwanese",
        "general",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siexnlamsienluo"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si̯ɛn³³⁻¹¹ lam²⁴⁻¹¹ sin¹¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Taiwanese",
        "general",
        "IPA",
        "Taibei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si̯ɛn³³⁻²¹ lam²³⁻³³ sin²¹⁻⁴¹ lu⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Taiwanese",
        "general",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si̯ɛn²²⁻²¹ lam²⁴⁻²² sin²¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Taiwanese",
        "general",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lír"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Tâi-lô"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lír"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si̯ɛn⁴¹⁻²² lam²⁴⁻²² sin⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ lɯ⁵⁵⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Tâi-lô"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siexnlamsienlie"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si̯ɛn²²⁻²¹ lam¹³⁻²² sin²¹⁻⁵³ li⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "idiomatic"
  ],
  "word": "善男信女"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "官話成語",
    "官話詞元",
    "帶「信」的漢語詞",
    "帶「善」的漢語詞",
    "帶「女」的漢語詞",
    "帶「男」的漢語詞",
    "有2個詞條的頁面",
    "有國際音標的漢語詞",
    "有詞條的頁面",
    "泉漳話成語",
    "泉漳話詞元",
    "漢語成語",
    "漢語詞元",
    "粵語成語",
    "粵語詞元"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "越南語",
      "lang_code": "vi",
      "raw_tags": [
        "借詞"
      ],
      "roman": "善男信女",
      "word": "thiện nam tín nữ"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "漢語",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "有德行的男人，堅貞的女人",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "pos_title": "成語",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "佛家稱信仰佛教的人，道教亦沿用之"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shànnán xìnnǚ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄕㄢˋ ㄋㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄋㄩˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin⁶ naam⁴ seon³ neoi⁵⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin⁶ naam⁴ seon³ neoi⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lír"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shànnán xìnnǚ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄕㄢˋ ㄋㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄣˋ ㄋㄩˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shànnán sìnnyǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade–Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shan⁴-nan² hsin⁴-nü³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shàn-nán syìn-nyǔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "shannnan shinnneu"
    },
    {
      "roman": "šanʹnanʹ sinʹnjuj",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "шаньнань синьнюй"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ʂän⁵¹ nän³⁵ ɕin⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin⁶ naam⁴ seon³ neoi⁵⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin⁶ naam⁴ seon³ neoi⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Yale",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sihn nàahm seun néui"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Yale",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sihn nàahm seun néuih"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin⁶ naam⁴ soen³ noey⁵⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "sin⁶ naam⁴ soen³ noey⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xin⁶ nam⁴ sên³ nêu⁵⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "xin⁶ nam⁴ sên³ nêu⁵"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siːn²² naːm²¹ sɵn³³ nɵy̯¹³⁻³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/siːn²² naːm²¹ sɵn³³ nɵy̯¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Taiwanese",
        "general",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Taiwanese",
        "general",
        "Tâi-lô"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Taiwanese",
        "general",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siexnlamsienluo"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si̯ɛn³³⁻¹¹ lam²⁴⁻¹¹ sin¹¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Taiwanese",
        "general",
        "IPA",
        "Taibei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si̯ɛn³³⁻²¹ lam²³⁻³³ sin²¹⁻⁴¹ lu⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Taiwanese",
        "general",
        "IPA",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si̯ɛn²²⁻²¹ lam²⁴⁻²² sin²¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Taiwanese",
        "general",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lír"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou",
        "Tâi-lô"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lír"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si̯ɛn⁴¹⁻²² lam²⁴⁻²² sin⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ lɯ⁵⁵⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Phak-fa-su"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Tâi-lô"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siān-lâm-sìn-lí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "siexnlamsienlie"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si̯ɛn²²⁻²¹ lam¹³⁻²² sin²¹⁻⁵³ li⁵³/",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan",
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou",
        "IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "idiomatic"
  ],
  "word": "善男信女"
}

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