碎屍萬段

Chinese

		to dismember a corpse; to cut up a corpse into small pieces	ten thousand; a great number; surname	paragraph; section; segment
trad. (碎屍萬段)		碎屍	萬	段
simp. (碎尸万段)		碎尸	万	段

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): suìshīwànduàn

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˋ ㄕㄨㄢˋ ㄉㄨㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi³ si¹ maan⁶ dyun⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: suìshīwànduàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˋ ㄕㄨㄢˋ ㄉㄨㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: suèishihwànduàn
  - Wade–Giles: sui⁴-shih¹-wan⁴-tuan⁴
  - Yale: swèi-shr̄-wàn-dwàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sueyshywannduann
  - Palladius: суйшиваньдуань (sujšivanʹduanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯⁵¹ ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ wän⁵¹⁻⁵³ tu̯än⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: seoi³ si¹ maan⁶ dyun⁶
  - Yale: seui sī maahn dyuhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soey³ si¹ maan⁶ dyn⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: sêu³ xi¹ man⁶ dün⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³³ siː⁵⁵ maːn²² tyːn²²/

Idiom

碎屍萬段

to dismember a corpse into numerous small pieces; to cut up a corpse into many small pieces
我要把你碎屍萬段！ [MSC, trad.]
我要把你碎尸万段！ [MSC, simp.]
Wǒ yào bǎ nǐ suìshīwànduàn! [Pinyin]
I'll chop your corpse into pieces!

Usage notes

Usually used as a phrase for threatening others.