烏七八糟
Chinese
a crow; black; not a crow; black; not; empty; void |
seven | eight | alcohol dregs; to waste; decayed | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (烏七八糟) | 烏 | 七 | 八 | 糟 | |
| simp. (乌七八糟) | 乌 | 七 | 八 | 糟 | |
| alternative forms | 污七八糟 | ||||
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): wu1 cat1 baat3 zou1
- Gan (Wiktionary): u1 qit bat6 zau1
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): u1 ci6 ba6 zau1
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: wūqībāzāo
- Zhuyin: ㄨ ㄑㄧ ㄅㄚ ㄗㄠ
- Tongyong Pinyin: wucibazao
- Wade–Giles: wu1-chʻi1-pa1-tsao1
- Yale: wū-chī-bā-dzāu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uchibatzau
- Palladius: уцибацзао (ucibaczao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /u⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵ pä⁵⁵ t͡sɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: wu1 qi2 ba2 zao1
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: ukibazao
- Sinological IPA (key): /vu⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi²¹ pa²¹ t͡sau⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: wu1 cat1 baat3 zou1
- Yale: wū chāt baat jōu
- Cantonese Pinyin: wu1 tsat7 baat8 dzou1
- Guangdong Romanization: wu1 ced1 bad3 zou1
- Sinological IPA (key): /wuː⁵⁵ t͡sʰɐt̚⁵ paːt̚³ t͡sou̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Gan
- Xiang
Idiom
烏七八糟
- everything in disorder; in a hideous mess; horribly messy
- filthy; despicable; disgusting
Synonyms
- (everything in disorder):
- 一塌糊塗 / 一塌糊涂
- 亂 / 乱 (luàn)
- 亂七八糟 / 乱七八糟 (luànqībāzāo)
- 亂雜 / 乱杂 (luànzá) (literary)
- 凌亂 (língluàn)
- 嘈亂 / 嘈乱 (cáoluàn) (literary, of sound)
- 大鼎炒狗蟻 / 大鼎炒狗蚁 (Hokkien)
- 挐亂 / 挐乱 (Hokkien)
- 擾擾 / 扰扰 (rǎorǎo)
- 散亂 / 散乱 (sǎnluàn)
- 有七無八 / 有七无八 (Hokkien)
- 殽亂 / 淆乱 (xiáoluàn) (literary)
- 混亂 / 混乱 (hùnluàn)
- 烏哩單刀 / 乌哩单刀 (Cantonese)
- 無序 / 无序 (wúxù)
- 狼戾 (Hakka, literary)
- 狼狼戾戾 (Hakka)
- 狼藉 (lángjí)
- 立立亂 / 立立乱 (lap6 lap6-2 lyun6) (Cantonese)
- 糊塗 / 糊涂
- 糾紛 / 纠纷 (jiūfēn) (literary)
- 紊 (wěn) (literary, or in compounds)
- 紛亂 / 纷乱 (fēnluàn)
- 紊亂 / 紊乱 (wěnluàn)
- 紛雜 / 纷杂 (fēnzá) (literary)
- 繚亂 / 缭乱 (liáoluàn) (formal)
- 肆亂 / 肆乱 (sìluàn) (literary)
- 荊棘 / 荆棘 (jīngjí) (literary, figurative)
- 蕪雜 / 芜杂 (wúzá)
- 雜亂 / 杂乱 (záluàn)
- 雜醪膏 / 杂醪膏 (Xiamen Hokkien, Quanzhou Hokkien)
- 鬼打樣 / 鬼打样 (Hakka)