拍烏蠅

Chinese

		to clap; to pat; to beat to clap; to pat; to beat; to hit; to slap; to take (a picture)	housefly
trad. (拍烏蠅)		拍	烏蠅
simp. (拍乌蝇)		拍	乌蝇

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paak³ wu¹ jing^4-1

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: paak³ wu¹ jing^4-1
    • Yale: paak wū yīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paak⁸ wu¹ jing^4-1
    • Guangdong Romanization: pag³ wu¹ ying^4-1
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaːk̚³ wuː⁵⁵ jɪŋ²¹⁻⁵⁵/

Verb

拍⫽烏蠅 (verb-object) (Cantonese)

1. (literally) to swat flies (with a flyswatter)
2. (figurative, of business, traffic, etc.) to be slack (to the extent that clerks can only swat flies in the shop); to be sluggish; to be quiet

Synonyms

• 門可羅雀／门可罗雀 (ménkěluóquè)