川流不息

Chinese

			to not stop; to be ceaseless
trad. (川流不息)		川流	不息
simp. #(川流不息)		川流	不息

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuānliúbùxī, chuānliúbùxí

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄢ ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧ, ㄔㄨㄢ ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun¹ lau⁴ bat¹ sik¹

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhoan-liû-put-sek

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cuang¹ liu⁵ bug⁴ sêg⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chuānliúbùxī
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢ ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chuanlióubùsi
    • Wade–Giles: chʻuan¹-liu²-pu⁴-hsi¹
    • Yale: chwān-lyóu-bù-syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuanlioubushi
    • Palladius: чуаньлюбуси (čuanʹljubusi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵ li̯oʊ̯³⁵ pu⁵¹ ɕi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chuānliúbùxí
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢ ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chuanlióubùsí
    • Wade–Giles: chʻuan¹-liu²-pu⁴-hsi²
    • Yale: chwān-lyóu-bù-syí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuanlioubushyi
    • Palladius: чуаньлюбуси (čuanʹljubusi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵ li̯oʊ̯³⁵ pu⁵¹ ɕi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun¹ lau⁴ bat¹ sik¹
    • Yale: chyūn làuh bāt sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn¹ lau⁴ bat⁷ sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun¹ leo⁴ bed¹ xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵ lɐu̯²¹ pɐt̚⁵ sɪk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoan-liû-put-sek
    • Tâi-lô: tshuan-liû-put-sik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhoanliu'putseg
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴⁻³³ liu²³⁻³³ put̚³²⁻⁴ siɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴⁻³³ liu²⁴⁻¹¹ put̚³²⁻⁴ siɪk̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cuang¹ liu⁵ bug⁴ sêg⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshuang liû puk sek
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰuaŋ³³⁻²³ liu⁵⁵⁻¹¹ puk̚²⁻⁴ sek̚²/

Idiom

川流不息

1. (usually of traffic) flowing past in an endless stream
   • 2002, Xu Wei (lyrics and music), “時光 [shíguāng, Time]”, in 時光·漫步 [Time, Stroll], performed by Xu Wei:

     也許就在這一瞬間　你的笑容依然如晚霞般　在川流不息的時光中　神采飛揚 [MSC, trad.]
     也许就在这一瞬间　你的笑容依然如晚霞般　在川流不息的时光中　神采飞扬 [MSC, simp.]

     Yěxǔ jiù zài zhè yīshùnjiān, Nǐ de xiàoróng yīrán rú wǎnxiá bān, Zài chuānliúbùxī de shíguāng zhōng, Shéncǎifēiyáng [Pinyin]

     Perhaps just at this instant / Your smile was as bright as an afterglow / During the endless stream-like time

See also

• 滔滔不絕／滔滔不绝 (tāotāobùjué)