"渾水摸魚" meaning in 漢語

See 渾水摸魚 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

IPA: /xu̯ən³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵⁵ y³⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /wɐn²² sɵy̯³⁵ mɔː³⁵ jyː²¹/ [Cantonese, Standard-Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, IPA], /wɐn²² sɵy̯³⁵ mɔː³⁵ jyː²¹⁻³⁵/ [Cantonese, Standard-Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, IPA] Forms: 浑水摸鱼 [Simplified-Chinese], 混水摸魚 [Traditional-Chinese, alternative], 混水摸鱼 [Simplified-Chinese, alternative]
  1. 趁混亂的時機謀取不正當的利益
    Sense id: zh-渾水摸魚-zh-phrase-7XlX6WJp
  2. 工作不認真 Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: zh-渾水摸魚-zh-phrase-lClMvjRx
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "三十六計",
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      "name": "官話成語",
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      "kind": "other",
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      "parents": [],
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "帶「摸」的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "帶「水」的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "帶「渾」的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "帶「魚」的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有1個詞條的頁面",
      "parents": [],
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      "kind": "other",
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      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有國際音標的漢語詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
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    },
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "漢語成語",
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      "kind": "other",
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      "form": "浑水摸鱼",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
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      "form": "混水摸魚",
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        "Traditional-Chinese",
        "alternative"
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      "form": "混水摸鱼",
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        "Simplified-Chinese",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "漢語",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "在混濁的水中抓魚",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "pos_title": "成語",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "趁混亂的時機謀取不正當的利益"
      ],
      "id": "zh-渾水摸魚-zh-phrase-7XlX6WJp"
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "工作不認真"
      ],
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        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "húnshuǐmōyú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄏㄨㄣˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄇㄛ ㄩˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "húnshuǐmōyú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄏㄨㄣˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄇㄛ ㄩˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "húnshuěimoyú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade–Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hun²-shui³-mo¹-yü²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hwún-shwěi-mwō-yú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hwenshoeimhoyu"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xunʹšujmojuj",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "хуньшуймоюй"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xu̯ən³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵⁵ y³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "混水摸魚",
      "raw_tags": [
        "同音詞"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Traditional-Chinese",
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "混水摸鱼",
      "raw_tags": [
        "同音詞"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese",
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "渾水摸魚",
      "raw_tags": [
        "同音詞"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Traditional-Chinese",
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "浑水摸鱼",
      "raw_tags": [
        "同音詞"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese",
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Yale",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wahn séui mó yùh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Yale",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wahn séui mó yú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wan⁶ soey² mo² jy⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wan⁶ soey² mo² jy⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wen⁶ sêu² mo² yu⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wen⁶ sêu² mo² yu⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wɐn²² sɵy̯³⁵ mɔː³⁵ jyː²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wɐn²² sɵy̯³⁵ mɔː³⁵ jyː²¹⁻³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "idiomatic"
  ],
  "word": "渾水摸魚"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "三十六計",
    "官話成語",
    "官話詞元",
    "帶「摸」的漢語詞",
    "帶「水」的漢語詞",
    "帶「渾」的漢語詞",
    "帶「魚」的漢語詞",
    "有1個詞條的頁面",
    "有同音詞的官話詞",
    "有國際音標的漢語詞",
    "有詞條的頁面",
    "漢語成語",
    "漢語詞元",
    "粵語成語",
    "粵語詞元"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "浑水摸鱼",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "混水摸魚",
      "tags": [
        "Traditional-Chinese",
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "混水摸鱼",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "漢語",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "在混濁的水中抓魚",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "pos_title": "成語",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "趁混亂的時機謀取不正當的利益"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "工作不認真"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "húnshuǐmōyú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄏㄨㄣˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄇㄛ ㄩˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "húnshuǐmōyú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄏㄨㄣˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄇㄛ ㄩˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "húnshuěimoyú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade–Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hun²-shui³-mo¹-yü²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hwún-shwěi-mwō-yú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "hwenshoeimhoyu"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xunʹšujmojuj",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "хуньшуймоюй"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xu̯ən³⁵ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ⁵⁵ y³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "混水摸魚",
      "raw_tags": [
        "同音詞"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Traditional-Chinese",
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "混水摸鱼",
      "raw_tags": [
        "同音詞"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese",
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "渾水摸魚",
      "raw_tags": [
        "同音詞"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Traditional-Chinese",
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "浑水摸鱼",
      "raw_tags": [
        "同音詞"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese",
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wan⁶ seoi² mo² jyu⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Yale",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wahn séui mó yùh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Yale",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wahn séui mó yú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wan⁶ soey² mo² jy⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wan⁶ soey² mo² jy⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wen⁶ sêu² mo² yu⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "wen⁶ sêu² mo² yu⁴⁻²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wɐn²² sɵy̯³⁵ mɔː³⁵ jyː²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/wɐn²² sɵy̯³⁵ mɔː³⁵ jyː²¹⁻³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong Kong",
        "IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "idiomatic"
  ],
  "word": "渾水摸魚"
}

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