跌跌撞撞
Chinese
to drop; to fall; to tumble | to drop; to fall; to tumble | to hit; to strike; to meet by accident to hit; to strike; to meet by accident; to run into; to bump against; to bump into |
to hit; to strike; to meet by accident to hit; to strike; to meet by accident; to run into; to bump against; to bump into | ||
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simp. and trad. (跌跌撞撞) |
跌 | 跌 | 撞 | 撞 | |
AABB-type reduplication of 跌撞. |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): dit3 dit3 zong6 zong6
- Hakka (Changting, Changting Pinyin): de2 de2 công5 công5
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: diēdiēzhuàngzhuàng
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄝ ㄉㄧㄝ ㄓㄨㄤˋ ㄓㄨㄤˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: diediejhuàngjhuàng
- Wade–Giles: tieh1-tieh1-chuang4-chuang4
- Yale: dyē-dyē-jwàng-jwàng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: diediejuanqjuanq
- Palladius: дедечжуанчжуан (dedečžuančžuan)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ti̯ɛ⁵⁵ ti̯ɛ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: diédiézhuàngzhuàng
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄝˊ ㄉㄧㄝˊ ㄓㄨㄤˋ ㄓㄨㄤˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: diédiéjhuàngjhuàng
- Wade–Giles: tieh2-tieh2-chuang4-chuang4
- Yale: dyé-dyé-jwàng-jwàng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyedyejuanqjuanq
- Palladius: дедечжуанчжуан (dedečžuančžuan)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ti̯ɛ³⁵ ti̯ɛ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: dit3 dit3 zong6 zong6
- Yale: dit dit johng johng
- Cantonese Pinyin: dit8 dit8 dzong6 dzong6
- Guangdong Romanization: did3 did3 zong6 zong6
- Sinological IPA (key): /tiːt̚³ tiːt̚³ t͡sɔːŋ²² t͡sɔːŋ²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Changting)
- Changting Pinyin: de2 de2 công5 công5
- Sinological IPA: /te²⁴ te²⁴ t͡sʰɔŋ²¹ t͡sʰɔŋ²¹/
- (Changting)
Adjective
跌跌撞撞
- (ideophonic) doddering; tottering; faltering
- (ideophonic, figurative) rash; reckless; staggering along in life
Synonyms
- 撞撞跌跌
References
- 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “跌跌撞撞”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 135.