世事難料

Chinese

		secular affairs; worldly affairs	disaster; distress; to scold disaster; distress; to scold; difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good	material; stuff; grain material; stuff; grain; feed; to expect; to anticipate; to guess
trad. (世事難料)		世事	難	料
simp. (世事难料)		世事	难	料

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shìshìnánliào

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ ㄕˋ ㄋㄢˊ ㄌㄧㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai³ si⁶ naan⁴ liu⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shìshìnánliào
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄕˋ ㄋㄢˊ ㄌㄧㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shìhshìhnánliào
    • Wade–Giles: shih⁴-shih⁴-nan²-liao⁴
    • Yale: shr̀-shr̀-nán-lyàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhshyhnanliaw
    • Palladius: шишинаньляо (šišinanʹljao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ nän³⁵ li̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sai³ si⁶ naan⁴ liu⁶
    • Yale: sai sih nàahn liuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai³ si⁶ naan⁴ liu⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei³ xi⁶ nan⁴ liu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯³³ siː²² naːn²¹ liːu̯²²/

Idiom

世事難料

1. worldly affairs are difficult to predict