冠冕堂皇

Chinese

		royal crown; official's hat	grand; stately; magnificent grand; stately; magnificent; large palace
simp. and trad. (冠冕堂皇)		冠冕	堂皇

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guānmiǎntánghuáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢ ㄇㄧㄢˇ ㄊㄤˊ ㄏㄨㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gun¹ min⁵ tong⁴ wong⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guānmiǎntánghuáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢ ㄇㄧㄢˇ ㄊㄤˊ ㄏㄨㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guanmiǎntánghuáng
    • Wade–Giles: kuan¹-mien³-tʻang²-huang²
    • Yale: gwān-myǎn-táng-hwáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guanmeantarnghwang
    • Palladius: гуаньмяньтанхуан (guanʹmjanʹtanxuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯än⁵⁵ mi̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰɑŋ³⁵ xu̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gun¹ min⁵ tong⁴ wong⁴
    • Yale: gūn míhn tòhng wòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gun¹ min⁵ tong⁴ wong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: gun¹ min⁵ tong⁴ wong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuːn⁵⁵ miːn¹³ tʰɔːŋ²¹ wɔːŋ²¹/

Idiom

冠冕堂皇

1. dignified; upright; solemn
2. to seem honorable and just on the surface, but is not the case in reality