美人計

Chinese

		beautiful woman; beauty; lovely lady beautiful woman; beauty; lovely lady; royal consort	to calculate; to compute; to count to calculate; to compute; to count; reckon; ruse; to plan
trad. (美人計)		美人	計
simp. (美人计)		美人	计

Etymology

Stratagem #31 in the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): měirénjì

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˇ ㄖㄣˊ ㄐㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁵ jan⁴ gai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: měirénjì
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˇ ㄖㄣˊ ㄐㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: měirénjì
    • Wade–Giles: mei³-jên²-chi⁴
    • Yale: měi-rén-jì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeirenjih
    • Palladius: мэйжэньцзи (mɛjžɛnʹczi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵ t͡ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mei⁵ jan⁴ gai³
    • Yale: méih yàhn gai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁵ jan⁴ gai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: méi⁵ yen⁴ gei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹ kɐi̯³³/

Noun

美人計

1. honey trap; beauty trap; honeypot; sexual entrapment

Japanese

Kanji in this term
美	人	計
び Grade: 3	じん Grade: 1	けい Grade: 2
kan'on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bʲiʑĩŋke̞ː]

Noun

美(び)人(じん)計(けい) • (bijinkei) 

1. honey traps

Korean

Hanja in this term
美	人	計

Noun

美人計 • (miin'gye) (hangeul 미인계)

1. hanja form^? of 미인계 (“honeytrap”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
美	人	計

Noun

美人計

1. chữ Hán form of mỹ nhân kế (“honey traps”).