輕輕易易

Chinese

		light; easy; gentle light; easy; gentle; soft; reckless; unimportant; frivolous; small in number; unstressed; neutral	light; easy; gentle light; easy; gentle; soft; reckless; unimportant; frivolous; small in number; unstressed; neutral	change; easy; simple	change; easy; simple
trad. (輕輕易易)		輕	輕	易	易
simp. (轻轻易易)		轻	轻	易	易
AABB-type reduplication of 輕易／轻易 (qīngyì).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qīngqīngyìyì

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥ ㄑㄧㄥ ㄧˋ ㄧˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qīngqīngyìyì
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥ ㄑㄧㄥ ㄧˋ ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cingcingyìyì
    • Wade–Giles: chʻing¹-chʻing¹-i⁴-i⁴
    • Yale: chīng-chīng-yì-yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chingchingyihyih
    • Palladius: цинцинъии (cincinʺii)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰiŋ⁵⁵ i⁵¹⁻⁵³ i⁵¹/

Idiom

輕輕易易

1. simple; easy

   • 我們是針鋒相對，寸土必爭，絕不讓國民黨輕輕易易地佔我們的地方，殺我們的人。 [MSC, trad.]
     我们是针锋相对，寸土必争，绝不让国民党轻轻易易地占我们的地方，杀我们的人。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1945, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《抗日戰爭勝利後的時局和我們的方針》 (The Situation and Our Policy After the Victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan), 《毛澤東選集》 (Selected Works of Mao Zedong). English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Wǒmen shì zhēnfēngxiāngduì, cùntǔbìzhēng, juébù ràng Guómíndǎng qīngqīngyìyì de zhàn wǒmen de dìfang, shā wǒmen de rén. [Pinyin]

     Our [policy] is to give tit for tat and fight for every inch of land; we will never let the Kuomintang easily seize our land and kill our people.