啼飢號寒

Chinese

		mourn; to cry; hoof	hungry	number; call; name number; call; name; roar; cry	cold; poor; to tremble
trad. (啼飢號寒)		啼	飢	號	寒
simp. (啼饥号寒)		啼	饥	号	寒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tíjīháohán

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧˊ ㄐㄧ ㄏㄠˊ ㄏㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tai⁴ gei¹ hou⁴ hon⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tíjīháohán
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧˊ ㄐㄧ ㄏㄠˊ ㄏㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tíjiháohán
    • Wade–Giles: tʻi²-chi¹-hao²-han²
    • Yale: tí-jī-háu-hán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyijihaurharn
    • Palladius: тицзихаохань (ticzixaoxanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi³⁵ t͡ɕi⁵⁵ xɑʊ̯³⁵ xän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tai⁴ gei¹ hou⁴ hon⁴
    • Yale: tàih gēi hòuh hòhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tai⁴ gei¹ hou⁴ hon⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tei⁴ géi¹ hou⁴ hon⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɐi̯²¹ kei̯⁵⁵ hou̯²¹ hɔːn²¹/

Idiom

啼飢號寒

1. to cry out in hunger and cold; to be poverty-stricken

   • 在物質上，掠奪普通人民的衣食，使廣大人民啼飢號寒；掠奪生產工具，使中國民族工業歸於毀滅和奴役化。 [MSC, trad.]
     在物质上，掠夺普通人民的衣食，使广大人民啼饥号寒；掠夺生产工具，使中国民族工业归于毁灭和奴役化。 [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

     Zài wùzhì shàng, lüèduó pǔtōng rénmín de yīshí, shǐ guǎngdà rénmín tíjīháohán; lüèduó shēngchǎn gōngjù, shǐ Zhōngguó mínzú gōngyè guīyú huǐmiè hé núyìhuà. [Pinyin]

     Materially, [the enemy] is robbing the common people even of their food and clothing, making them cry out in hunger and cold; he is plundering the means of production, thus ruining and enslaving China's national industries.