私了

Chinese

		personal; private; selfish	to know; to understand; (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) to know; to understand; (modal particle intensifying preceding clause); (completed action marker)
simp. and trad. (私了)		私	了
alternative forms		獅鳥／狮鸟 Cantonese sense 2 鶳 Cantonese sense 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sīliǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ ㄌㄧㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ liu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sīliǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄌㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sihliǎo
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹-liao³
    • Yale: sz̄-lyǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syleau
    • Palladius: сыляо (syljao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵ li̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si¹ liu⁵
    • Yale: sī líuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ liu⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ liu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ liːu̯¹³/

Verb

私了

1. to settle (a matter) privately without involving authorities
2. (Hong Kong, neologism, slang, of a pro-democracy protester) to extrajudicially punish a perceived opponent (which almost inevitably devolves into violence)

Antonyms

• 公了 (gōngliǎo)