打落水狗

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen
trad. (打落水狗)		打	落水狗
simp. #(打落水狗)		打	落水狗
Literally: “to beat a drowning dog”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎluòshuǐgǒu

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄍㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² lok⁶ seoi² gau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎluòshuǐgǒu [Phonetic: dǎluòshuígǒu]
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄍㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎluòshuěigǒu
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-lo⁴-shui³-kou³
    • Yale: dǎ-lwò-shwěi-gǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daaluohshoeigoou
    • Palladius: далошуйгоу (dalošujgou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ lu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ koʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² lok⁶ seoi² gau²
    • Yale: dá lohk séui gáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² lok⁹ soey² gau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² log⁶ sêu² geo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ lɔːk̚² sɵy̯³⁵ kɐu̯³⁵/

Idiom

打落水狗

1. to hit an enemy when he is down or defeated

Synonyms

• 痛打落水狗 (tòngdǎ luòshuǐgǒu)
• 棒打落水狗
• 落井下石 (luòjǐngxiàshí)
• (Xiang) 打蹩腳老虎／打蹩脚老虎