閒事

See also: 闲事

Chinese

		idle; interstice; separate	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
trad. (閒事/閑事)		閒/閑	事
simp. (闲事)		闲	事

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiánshì

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄕˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): haan⁴ si⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): hàn-sṳ

(Hailu, HRS): han she^˖
Jin (Wiktionary): xie¹ qi³
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): e² so⁵ / inn² so⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): êng-sū / hân-sīr

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiánshì
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄕˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siánshìh
  - Wade–Giles: hsien²-shih⁴
  - Yale: syán-shr̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyanshyh
  - Palladius: сяньши (sjanʹši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
  - Homophones:
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    賢士 / 贤士
    閒事 / 闲事
    閒適 / 闲适
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiánshìr
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄕˋㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siánshìhr
  - Wade–Giles: hsien²-shih⁴-ʼrh
  - Yale: syán-shìr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyanshell
  - Palladius: сяньшир (sjanʹšir)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ ʂʐ̩ɻ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: haan⁴ si⁶
  - Yale: hàahn sih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: haan⁴ si⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: han⁴ xi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːn²¹ siː²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hàn-sṳ
  - Hakka Romanization System: han^ˇ sii
  - Hagfa Pinyim: han² si⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /han¹¹ sɨ⁵⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: han she^˖
  - Sinological IPA: /han⁵⁵ ʃe³³/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: xie¹ qi³
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /ɕie¹¹ t͡ɕʰi⁴⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: e² so⁵ [Phonetic: e⁴ lo⁵]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: á̤ⁿ-seō
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /e¹³⁻⁴² ^(ɬ-)lo¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: inn² so⁵ [Phonetic: inn⁴ no⁵]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ĩ²⁴⁻⁴² ^(ɬ-)no²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: êng-sū
  - Tâi-lô: îng-sū
  - Phofsit Daibuun: engsu
  - IPA (Taipei): /iɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ su³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɪŋ²³⁻³³ su³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪŋ¹³⁻²² su²²/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /iɪŋ²⁴⁻²² su²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hân-sīr
  - Tâi-lô: hân-sīr
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /han²⁴⁻²² sɯ⁴¹/

Noun

閒事

other people's business
unimportant matter; trivial matter

Synonyms

(other people's business): (Xiang) 空路, 空頭路／空头路, 空路徑／空路径, 粟路

Derived terms

管閒事 / 管闲事 (guǎnxiánshì)