倒瀉籮蟹

Chinese

		to spill	basket	crab
trad. (倒瀉籮蟹)		倒瀉	籮	蟹
simp. (倒泻箩蟹)		倒泻	箩	蟹
Literally: “(be like) crabs spilled out of the basket”.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou² se² lo⁴ haai⁵

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dou² se² lo⁴ haai⁵
    • Yale: dóu sé lòh háaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou² se² lo⁴ haai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou² sé² lo⁴ hai⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯³⁵ sɛː³⁵ lɔː²¹ haːi̯¹³/

Idiom

倒瀉籮蟹 (Cantonese, figurative)

1. chaotic; messy
2. to be in a chaotic situation