虎毒不食子

Chinese

		tiger	poison; narcotics	not; no	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (虎毒不食子)		虎	毒	不	食	子
simp. #(虎毒不食子)		虎	毒	不	食	子
Literally: “A tiger, though vicious, will not eat its own son.”

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hǔdúbùshízǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˇ ㄉㄨˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˊ ㄗˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu² duk⁶ bat¹ sik⁶ zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hǔdúbùshízǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˇ ㄉㄨˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˊ ㄗˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hǔdúbùshíhzǐh
    • Wade–Giles: hu³-tu²-pu⁴-shih²-tzŭ³
    • Yale: hǔ-dú-bù-shŕ-dž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huudwubushyrtzyy
    • Palladius: худубушицзы (xudubušiczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu²¹⁴⁻²¹ tu³⁵ pu⁵¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu² duk⁶ bat¹ sik⁶ zi²
    • Yale: fú duhk bāt sihk jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu² duk⁹ bat⁷ sik⁹ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu² dug⁶ bed¹ xig⁶ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː³⁵ tʊk̚² pɐt̚⁵ sɪk̚² t͡siː³⁵/

Idiom

虎毒不食子

1. A person, no matter how vicious they are, will not harm their own children.