滾瓜爛熟
Chinese
| to boil; to roll | melon; claw; gourd melon; claw; gourd; squash |
rotten; decayed; well-cooked rotten; decayed; well-cooked; mushy; broken; bad; to decay; completely |
familiar; skilled; ripe familiar; skilled; ripe; done; cooked | ||
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| trad. (滾瓜爛熟) | 滾 | 瓜 | 爛 | 熟 | |
| simp. (滚瓜烂熟) | 滚 | 瓜 | 烂 | 熟 | |
| Literally: “ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine”. | |||||
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, literary; standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: gǔnguālànshú
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄣˇ ㄍㄨㄚ ㄌㄢˋ ㄕㄨˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: gǔngualànshú
- Wade–Giles: kun3-kua1-lan4-shu2
- Yale: gwǔn-gwā-làn-shú
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goengualannshwu
- Palladius: гуньгуаланьшу (gunʹgualanʹšu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ku̯ən²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯ä⁵⁵ län⁵¹ ʂu³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, colloquial; standard in Mainland and Taiwan)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: gǔnguālànshóu
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄣˇ ㄍㄨㄚ ㄌㄢˋ ㄕㄡˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: gǔngualànshóu
- Wade–Giles: kun3-kua1-lan4-shou2
- Yale: gwǔn-gwā-làn-shóu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goengualannshour
- Palladius: гуньгуаланьшоу (gunʹgualanʹšou)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ku̯ən²¹⁴⁻²¹ ku̯ä⁵⁵ län⁵¹ ʂoʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, literary; standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: gwan2 gwaa1 laan6 suk6
- Yale: gwán gwā laahn suhk
- Cantonese Pinyin: gwan2 gwaa1 laan6 suk9
- Guangdong Romanization: guen2 gua1 lan6 sug6
- Sinological IPA (key): /kʷɐn³⁵ kʷaː⁵⁵ laːn²² sʊk̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Idiom
滾瓜爛熟