凶多吉少
Chinese
| fierce; terrible; ominous | many; much; a lot of many; much; a lot of; numerous; multi- |
lucky; Jilin Province (abbrev.) | young; few; little young; few; little; lack | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (凶多吉少/兇多吉少) | 凶/兇 | 多 | 吉 | 少 | |
| simp. (凶多吉少) | 凶 | 多 | 吉 | 少 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): hung1 do1 gat1 siu2
- Hakka (Changting, Changting Pinyin): shong1 do1 ji2 shao3
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: xiōngduōjíshǎo
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄥ ㄉㄨㄛ ㄐㄧˊ ㄕㄠˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: syongduojíshǎo
- Wade–Giles: hsiung1-to1-chi2-shao3
- Yale: syūng-dwō-jí-shǎu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiongduojyishao
- Palladius: сюндоцзишао (sjundoczišao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕi̯ʊŋ⁵⁵ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi³⁵ ʂɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: hung1 do1 gat1 siu2
- Yale: hūng dō gāt síu
- Cantonese Pinyin: hung1 do1 gat7 siu2
- Guangdong Romanization: hung1 do1 ged1 xiu2
- Sinological IPA (key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ tɔː⁵⁵ kɐt̚⁵ siːu̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Changting)
- Changting Pinyin: shong1 do1 ji2 shao3
- Sinological IPA: /ʃoŋ³³ to³³ t͡ɕi²⁴ ʃɔ⁴²/
- (Changting)
Idiom
凶多吉少
- to be more ominous than propitious; fraught with grim possibilities
References
- 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “凶多吉少”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 590.