三心二意

Chinese

		three	heart; mind	two	idea; meaning; wish idea; meaning; wish; desire; Italy (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (三心二意)		三	心	二	意

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): sānxīn'èryì

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄢ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄦˋ ㄧˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): san¹ xin¹ er⁴ yi⁴

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saam¹ sam¹ ji⁶ ji³
• Gan (Wiktionary): san¹ xin¹ eo⁵ i⁴
• Jin (Wiktionary): san¹ xing¹ er³ i³
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): san¹ sin¹ e⁵ i⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sānxīn'èryì
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄢ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄦˋ ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sansin-èryì
    • Wade–Giles: san¹-hsin¹-êrh⁴-i⁴
    • Yale: sān-syīn-èr-yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sanshinellyih
    • Palladius: саньсиньэри (sanʹsinʹeri)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ ɕin⁵⁵ ˀɤɻ⁵¹⁻⁵³ i⁵¹/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: san¹ xin¹ er⁴ yi⁴
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: sanxinrj
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /san⁵⁵ ɕin⁵⁵ ɚ²¹³ i²¹³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saam¹ sam¹ ji⁶ ji³
    • Yale: sāam sām yih yi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saam¹ sam¹ ji⁶ ji³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sam¹ sem¹ yi⁶ yi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːm⁵⁵ sɐm⁵⁵ jiː²² jiː³³/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: san¹ xin¹ eo⁵ i⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /san⁴² ɕin⁴² ɵ¹¹ i³⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: san¹ xing¹ er³ i³
    • Sinological IPA (old-style, no sandhi): /sæ̃¹¹ ɕĩŋ¹¹ əɻ⁴⁵ i⁴⁵/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: san¹ sin¹ e⁵ i⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /san³³ sin³³ ɤ̞²¹⁻¹¹ i⁴⁵/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /san³³ ɕin³³ ɤ̞²¹⁻¹¹ i⁴⁵/

Idiom

三心二意

1. shilly-shally; half-hearted; without consistency or constancy; likely to change minds easily

Synonyms

• 心神不定
• 心猿意馬／心猿意马 (xīnyuányìmǎ)
• 意馬心猿／意马心猿

Dialectal synonyms of 三心二意 (“shilly-shally; half-hearted”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		三心二意, 三心兩意
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	三心二意
	Harbin	三心二意
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	三心二意
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	三心二意, 三心兩意
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	三心二意
	Xining	三心二意
	Xuzhou	三心二意
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	三心二意
	Lanzhou	三心二意
	Ürümqi	三心二意, 三心兩意
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	三心二意
	Wuhan	三心二意, 三心兩意
	Guiyang	三心二意
	Liuzhou	三心兩意
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	三心二意
	Yangzhou	三心二意
Cantonese	Hong Kong	三心兩意
	Dongguan	三心兩意
Gan	Nanchang	三心二意
	Lichuan	三心二意, 三心兩意
	Pingxiang	三心二意
Hakka	Meixian	三心兩意
	Yudu	三心兩意
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	三心兩意
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	三心兩意
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	三心兩意
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	三心兩意
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	三心兩意
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	三心兩意
Jin	Taiyuan	三心二意
	Xinzhou	三心二意
Southern Min	Xiamen	三心兩意
	Zhangzhou	欲准毋
	Tainan	三心兩意
	Manila (Hokkien)	三心兩意
	Haikou	三心兩意
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	三心兩意
Wu	Shanghai	三心兩意
	Shanghai (Chongming)	三心兩意
	Suzhou	三心兩意
	Danyang	三心二意
	Hangzhou	三心二意, 三心兩意
	Ningbo	三心兩意
	Wenzhou	三心兩意
	Jinhua	三心兩意
Xiang	Changsha	三心二意, 三心兩意
	Loudi	三心二意

Antonyms

• 一心一意 (yīxīnyīyì)