打退堂鼓
Chinese
beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen |
drum used at the end of a court hearing | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (打退堂鼓) | 打 | 退堂鼓 | |
| simp. #(打退堂鼓) | 打 | 退堂鼓 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): daa2 teoi3 tong4 gu2
- Southern Min
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: dǎ tuìtánggǔ
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄊㄨㄟˋ ㄊㄤˊ ㄍㄨˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dǎ tuèitánggǔ
- Wade–Giles: ta3 tʻui4-tʻang2-ku3
- Yale: dǎ twèi-táng-gǔ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daa tueytarngguu
- Palladius: да туйтангу (da tujtangu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹ tʰɑŋ³⁵ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: daa2 teoi3 tong4 gu2
- Yale: dá teui tòhng gú
- Cantonese Pinyin: daa2 toey3 tong4 gu2
- Guangdong Romanization: da2 têu3 tong4 gu2
- Sinological IPA (key): /taː³⁵ tʰɵy̯³³ tʰɔːŋ²¹ kuː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: táⁿ thòe-tông-kó͘
- Tâi-lô: tánn thuè-tông-kóo
- Phofsit Daibuun: dvar toea'dongkor
- IPA (Xiamen): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tʰue²¹⁻⁵³ tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² kɔ⁵³/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: da2 to3 deng5 gou2
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tá thò tṳ̂ng kóu
- Sinological IPA (key): /ta⁵²⁻³⁵ tʰo²¹³⁻⁵⁵ tɯŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kou⁵²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
Verb
打⫽退堂鼓 (verb-object)
- (historical) to beat the drum before the magistrate withdraws from the court
- (figurative) to beat a retreat; to give up halfway