讀死書
See also: 读死书
Chinese
to read; to study; comma to read; to study; comma; phrase marked by pause |
to die; impassable; uncrossable to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid |
book; letter | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (讀死書) | 讀 | 死 | 書 | |
| simp. (读死书) | 读 | 死 | 书 | |
| anagram | 死讀書／死读书 | |||
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): duk6 sei2 syu1
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): tah7 si3 zy1
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: dúsǐshū
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˊ ㄙˇ ㄕㄨ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dúsǐhshu
- Wade–Giles: tu2-ssŭ3-shu1
- Yale: dú-sž-shū
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwusyyshu
- Palladius: дусышу (dusyšu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tu³⁵ sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂu⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: duk6 sei2 syu1
- Yale: duhk séi syū
- Cantonese Pinyin: duk9 sei2 sy1
- Guangdong Romanization: dug6 séi2 xu1
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʊk̚² sei̯³⁵ syː⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: tah7 si3 zy1 [Phonetic: tah6 si5 ly1]
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ta̍h-sî-cṳ
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰaʔ⁴⁻²¹ ɬi⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ (t͡s-)ly⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: tah7 si3 zy1 [Phonetic: tah6 si5 ly1]
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰaʔ⁴⁻² ɬi³³²⁻²¹ (t͡s-)ly⁵⁴⁴/
- (Putian)
Verb
讀死書
- to rigidly read a text without taking into consideration the practical application of its contents; to read a text without true understanding
Synonyms
References
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “读死书”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 522.