走心

Chinese

		to walk; to go; to move to walk; to go; to move; to leave	heart; mind
simp. and trad. (走心)		走	心

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zǒuxīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄡˇ ㄒㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau² sam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zǒuxīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄡˇ ㄒㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zǒusin
    • Wade–Giles: tsou³-hsin¹
    • Yale: dzǒu-syīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzooushin
    • Palladius: цзоусинь (czousinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡soʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau² sam¹
    • Yale: jáu sām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau² sam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo² sem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³⁵ sɐm⁵⁵/

Verb

走⫽心 (verb-object) (intransitive)

1. to cease to be faithful
2. to be absent-minded
3. to be attentive; to be careful

Synonyms

• (to cease to be faithful):

• 反心 (Hokkien)
• 變心／变心 (biànxīn)

 

• (to be attentive):

• 上心 (shàngxīn)
• 專心／专心 (zhuānxīn)
• 專注 (zhuānzhù)
• 敬 (jìng) (literary, or in compounds)
• 用心 (yòngxīn)

 

Related terms

• 心不在焉 (xīnbùzàiyān)