情不自禁

Chinese

		feeling; emotion; passion feeling; emotion; passion; situation	not; no
trad. (情不自禁)		情	不	自禁
simp. #(情不自禁)		情	不	自禁

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qíngbùzìjīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄗˋ ㄐㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cing⁴ bat¹ zi⁶ gam³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chêng-put-chū-kìm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qíngbùzìjīn [Phonetic: qíngbúzìjīn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄗˋ ㄐㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cíngbùzìhjin
    • Wade–Giles: chʻing²-pu⁴-tzŭ⁴-chin¹
    • Yale: chíng-bù-dz̀-jīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyngbutzyhjin
    • Palladius: цинбуцзыцзинь (cinbuczyczinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡sz̩⁵¹ t͡ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cing⁴ bat¹ zi⁶ gam³
    • Yale: chìhng bāt jih gam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsing⁴ bat⁷ dzi⁶ gam³
    • Guangdong Romanization: qing⁴ bed¹ ji⁶ gem³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪŋ²¹ pɐt̚⁵ t͡siː²² kɐm³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chêng-put-chū-kìm
    • Tâi-lô: tsîng-put-tsū-kìm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zengputzuxkixm
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɪŋ²⁴⁻²² put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡su²²⁻²¹ kim²¹/

Idiom

情不自禁

1. cannot hold back one's emotion; can't help

   我情不自禁地哭了起來。 [MSC, trad.]
   我情不自禁地哭了起来。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ qíngbùzìjìn de kū le qǐlái. [Pinyin]

   I couldn't help crying.