乾巴巴

Chinese

		dry; clean; male dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname	very; extremely
trad. (乾巴巴)		乾	巴巴
simp. (干巴巴)		干	巴巴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gānbābā

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢ ㄅㄚ ㄅㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gon¹ baa¹ baa¹
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): gang¹ ba¹ ba¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gānbābā
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢ ㄅㄚ ㄅㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ganbaba
    • Wade–Giles: kan¹-pa¹-pa¹
    • Yale: gān-bā-bā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ganbaba
    • Palladius: ганьбаба (ganʹbaba)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän⁵⁵ pä⁵⁵ pä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gon¹ baa¹ baa¹
    • Yale: gōn bā bā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gon¹ baa¹ baa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gon¹ ba¹ ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːn⁵⁵ paː⁵⁵ paː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gang¹ ba¹ ba¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kang pa pa
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaŋ³³⁻²³ pa³³⁻²³ pa³³/

Adjective

乾巴巴

1. (ideophonic, of land, food, etc.) dry and hard; parched
2. (ideophonic, of speech, writing, etc.) dull; boring; insipid