販夫走卒

Chinese

		dealer; trader; seller	pawn; cat's-paw; lackey pawn; cat's-paw; lackey; stooge; runner; bailiff
trad. (販夫走卒)		販夫	走卒
simp. (贩夫走卒)		贩夫	走卒
Literally: “peddlers and carriers”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fànfūzǒuzú

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˋ ㄈㄨㄗㄡˇ ㄗㄨˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): faan³ fu¹ zau² zeot¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): fan-fû-chéu-chut

(Hailu, HRS): fan^ˇ fu^ˋ zeu^ˊ zud

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fànfūzǒuzú
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˋ ㄈㄨㄗㄡˇ ㄗㄨˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fànfuzǒuzú
  - Wade–Giles: fan⁴-fu¹-tsou³-tsu²
  - Yale: fàn-fū-dzǒu-dzú
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fannfutzooutzwu
  - Palladius: фаньфуцзоуцзу (fanʹfuczouczu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän⁵¹ fu⁵⁵ t͡soʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡su³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: faan³ fu¹ zau² zeot¹
  - Yale: faan fū jáu jēut
  - Cantonese Pinyin: faan³ fu¹ dzau² dzoet⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: fan³ fu¹ zeo² zêd¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn³³ fuː⁵⁵ t͡sɐu̯³⁵ t͡sɵt̚⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fan-fû-chéu-chut
  - Hakka Romanization System: fan fu^ˊ zeu^ˋ zud^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: fan⁴ fu¹ zeu³ zud⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /fan⁵⁵ fu²⁴ t͡seu̯³¹ t͡sut̚²/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: fan^ˇ fu^ˋ zeu^ˊ zud
  - Sinological IPA: /fan¹¹ fu⁵³ t͡seu²⁴⁻³³ t͡sut⁵/

Idiom

販夫走卒

population with low social status

References

“Entry #7739”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.