行運醫生醫病尾

Chinese

		fortune; luck; to have good luck fortune; luck; to have good luck; to be in luck; to be lucky	doctor; physician and surgeon; medical practitioner	medical; medicine; doctor medical; medicine; doctor; to cure; to treat	ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect	tail
trad. (行運醫生醫病尾)		行運	醫生	醫	病	尾
simp. (行运医生医病尾)		行运	医生	医	病	尾
Literally: “a lucky doctor treats a patient at the end of the illness”.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haang⁴ wan⁶ ji¹ sang¹ ji¹ beng⁶ mei⁵

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: haang⁴ wan⁶ ji¹ sang¹ ji¹ beng⁶ mei⁵
    • Yale: hàahng wahn yī sāng yī behng méih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haang⁴ wan⁶ ji¹ sang¹ ji¹ beng⁶ mei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: hang⁴ wen⁶ yi¹ seng¹ yi¹ béng⁶ méi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːŋ²¹ wɐn²² jiː⁵⁵ sɐŋ⁵⁵ jiː⁵⁵ pɛːŋ²² mei̯¹³/

Proverb

行運醫生醫病尾

1. to get credit for doing something easy or trivial
2. to do something easy or trivial in order to get credit for it