華而不實

Chinese

		flowery; flourishing; magnificent flowery; flourishing; magnificent; your; grey; corona; time; essence; China; Chinese; name of a mountain	and; as well as; but (not) and; as well as; but (not); yet (not); (shows causal relation); (shows change of state); (shows contrast)	not; no	real; true; honest real; true; honest; really; solid
trad. (華而不實)		華	而	不	實
simp. (华而不实)		华	而	不	实
Literally: “to bloom but not bear fruit”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huá'érbùshí

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄦˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁴ ji⁴ bat¹ sat⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huá'érbùshí
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄦˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huá-érbùshíh
    • Wade–Giles: hua²-êrh²-pu⁴-shih²
    • Yale: hwá-ér-bù-shŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwaerlbushyr
    • Palladius: хуаэрбуши (xuaerbuši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä³⁵ ˀɤɻ³⁵ pu⁵¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa⁴ ji⁴ bat¹ sat⁶
    • Yale: wàh yìh bāt saht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁴ ji⁴ bat⁷ sat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa⁴ yi⁴ bed¹ sed⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²¹ jiː²¹ pɐt̚⁵ sɐt̚²/

Idiom

華而不實

1. having a handsome exterior but hollow inside; flashy and without substance

Antonyms

• 實而不華／实而不华