獻世
Chinese
to offer | life; age; generation life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime | ||
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trad. (獻世) | 獻 | 世 | |
simp. (献世) | 献 | 世 |
Pronunciation
- Cantonese (Jyutping): hin3 sai3
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hiàn-sì
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: hin3 sai3
- Yale: hin sai
- Cantonese Pinyin: hin3 sai3
- Guangdong Romanization: hin3 sei3
- Sinological IPA (key): /hiːn³³ sɐi̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiàn-sì
- Tâi-lô: hiàn-sì
- Phofsit Daibuun: hiernsix
- IPA (Xiamen): /hiɛn²¹⁻⁵³ si²¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
Verb
獻世
- (Xiamen Hokkien) to show one's true colors
- (Cantonese, Xiamen Hokkien, Hainanese, Nanning Pinghua, Lichuan Gan) to make a spectacle or fool of oneself; to lose face
Synonyms
- 露相 (lòuxiàng)
- (to lose face):
Dialectal synonyms of 丟臉 (“to lose face”) [map]