洋洋得意

Chinese

		vast; great; impressive vast; great; impressive; overflowing; drifting	successful; smug; proud successful; smug; proud; self-satisfied
simp. and trad. (洋洋得意)		洋洋	得意
alternative forms		揚揚得意／扬扬得意

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yángyángdéyì

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄤˊ ㄧㄤˊ ㄉㄜˊ ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng⁴ joeng⁴ dak¹ ji³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): iông-iông-tek-ì

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yángyángdéyì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄤˊ ㄧㄤˊ ㄉㄜˊ ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yángyángdéyì
    • Wade–Giles: yang²-yang²-tê²-i⁴
    • Yale: yáng-yáng-dé-yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yangyangderyih
    • Palladius: янъяндэи (janʺjandɛi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑŋ³⁵ jɑŋ³⁵ tɤ³⁵ i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: joeng⁴ joeng⁴ dak¹ ji³
    • Yale: yèuhng yèuhng dāk yi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joeng⁴ joeng⁴ dak⁷ ji³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêng⁴ yêng⁴ deg¹ yi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jœːŋ²¹ jœːŋ²¹ tɐk̚⁵ jiː³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iông-iông-tek-ì
    • Tâi-lô: iông-iông-tik-ì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iong'iongdek'ix
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ iɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ tiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ i¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɔŋ²³⁻³³ iɔŋ²³⁻³³ tiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ i²¹/

Idiom

洋洋得意

1. Synonym of 得意洋洋 (déyìyángyáng, “smug; puffed up”)

   • 我願頑固派先生們，於其「限共」、「溶共」、「反共」等工作洋洋得意之餘，也去翻閱一下這個宣言。 [MSC, trad.]
     我愿顽固派先生们，于其「限共」、「溶共」、「反共」等工作洋洋得意之余，也去翻阅一下这个宣言。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1940, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《新民主主義論》 (On New Democracy), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Wǒ yuàn wángùpài xiānshengmen, yú qí “xiàngòng”, “rónggòng”, “fǎngòng” děng gōngzuò yángyángdéyì zhī yú, yě qù fānyuè yīxià zhège xuānyán. [Pinyin]

     I wish the die-hard gentlemen would spare a moment from the work of "restricting communism", "corroding communism" and "combating communism", in which they are so gleefully engaged, to glance through this manifesto.