蟲災

Chinese

		animal; insect	disaster; calamity
trad. (蟲災)		蟲	災
simp. (虫灾)		虫	灾

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chóngzāi

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄥˊ ㄗㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cung⁴ zoi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chóngzāi
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄥˊ ㄗㄞ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chóngzai
    • Wade–Giles: chʻung²-tsai¹
    • Yale: chúng-dzāi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chorngtzai
    • Palladius: чунцзай (čunczaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ³⁵ t͡saɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cung⁴ zoi¹
    • Yale: chùhng jōi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsung⁴ dzoi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cung⁴ zoi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊŋ²¹ t͡sɔːi̯⁵⁵/

Noun

蟲災

1. plague of insects

   • 在中國解放區，敵人的摧殘是異常嚴重的；水、旱、蟲災，也時常發生。 [MSC, trad.]
     在中国解放区，敌人的摧残是异常严重的；水、旱、虫灾，也时常发生。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1945, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論聯合政府》 (On Coalition Government), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Zài Zhōngguó jiěfàngqū, dírén de cuīcán shì yìcháng yánzhòng de; shuǐ, hàn, chóngzāi, yě shícháng fāshēng. [Pinyin]

     In China's Liberated Areas, the enemy has wrought great havoc, and floods, droughts and damage by insect pests have been frequent.