先天不足

Chinese

		nature; congenital; inherited nature; congenital; inherited; innate; inborn	insufficient; inadequate; lacking insufficient; inadequate; lacking; inadequacy; deficiency; dearth; shortage; want; lack; not enough
simp. and trad. (先天不足)		先天	不足

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāntiānbùzú

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄅㄨˋ ㄗㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sin¹ tin¹ bat¹ zuk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāntiānbùzú
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄅㄨˋ ㄗㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siantianbùzú
    • Wade–Giles: hsien¹-tʻien¹-pu⁴-tsu²
    • Yale: syān-tyān-bù-dzú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiantianbutzwu
    • Palladius: сяньтяньбуцзу (sjanʹtjanʹbuczu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ pu⁵¹ t͡su³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sin¹ tin¹ bat¹ zuk¹
    • Yale: sīn tīn bāt jūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sin¹ tin¹ bat⁷ dzuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xin¹ tin¹ bed¹ zug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːn⁵⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵ pɐt̚⁵ t͡sʊk̚⁵/

Idiom

先天不足

1. congenital deficiency; inherent weakness

   • 第三，日本戰爭雖是在其強的軍力、經濟力和政治組織力的基礎之上進行的，但同時又是在其先天不足的基礎之上進行的。 [MSC, trad.]
     第三，日本战争虽是在其强的军力、经济力和政治组织力的基础之上进行的，但同时又是在其先天不足的基础之上进行的。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Dìsān, Rìběn zhànzhēng suī shì zài qí qiáng de jūnlì, jīngjìlì hé zhèngzhì zǔzhīlì de jīchǔ zhīshàng jìnxíng de, dàn tóngshí yòu shì zài qí xiāntiānbùzú de jīchǔ zhīshàng jìnxíng de. [Pinyin]

     Thirdly, Japan's war is conducted on the basis of her great military, economic and political-organizational power, but at the same time it rests on an inadequate natural endowment.