一朝一夕

Chinese edit

		one day; unexpected occasion in the future	one evening
trad. (一朝一夕)		一朝	一夕
simp. ^#(一朝一夕)		一朝	一夕

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yīzhāoyīxī [Phonetic: yìzhāoyìxī]
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄓㄠㄧㄒㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yijhaoyisi
  - Wade–Giles: i¹-chao¹-i¹-hsi¹
  - Yale: yī-jāu-yī-syī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ijauishi
  - Palladius: ичжаоиси (ičžaoisi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ ɕi⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yīzhāoyīxì [Phonetic: yìzhāoyíxì]
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄓㄠㄧㄒㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yijhaoyisì
  - Wade–Giles: i¹-chao¹-i¹-hsi⁴
  - Yale: yī-jāu-yī-syì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ijauishih
  - Palladius: ичжаоиси (ičžaoisi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ i⁵⁵⁻³⁵ ɕi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: jat¹ ziu¹ jat¹ zik⁶
  - Yale: yāt jīu yāt jihk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jat⁷ dziu¹ jat⁷ dzik⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yed¹ jiu¹ yed¹ jig⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚⁵ t͡siːu̯⁵⁵ jɐt̚⁵ t͡sɪk̚²/
Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: zêg⁸ ziao¹ zêg⁸ sêg⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tse̍k tsiau tse̍k sek
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sek̚⁴⁻² t͡siau³³⁻²³ t͡sek̚⁴⁻² sek̚²/

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔi[t] t<r>aw ʔi[t] s-ɢAk/

(Zhengzhang): /*qliɡ ʔr'ew qliɡ ljaːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	一	朝	夕
Reading #	1/1	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yī	zhāo	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjit ›	‹ trjew ›	‹ zjek ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔi[t]/	/*t<r>aw/	/*s-ɢAk/
English	one	morning	evening, night
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

一朝一夕

short period of time
這不是一朝一夕就能實現的。 [MSC, trad.]
这不是一朝一夕就能实现的。 [MSC, simp.]
Zhè bùshì yīzhāoyīxī jiù néng shíxiàn de. [Pinyin]
It's not something that can be achieved overnight.