迫臨

Chinese

		to force; to compel; pressing to force; to compel; pressing; urgent	to face; to overlook; to arrive to face; to overlook; to arrive; to be (just) about to; just before
trad. (迫臨)		迫	臨
simp. (迫临)		迫	临

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pòlín

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄛˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bik¹ lam⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pòlín
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄛˋ ㄌㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pòlín
    • Wade–Giles: pʻo⁴-lin²
    • Yale: pwò-lín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pohlin
    • Palladius: полинь (polinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu̯ɔ⁵¹ lin³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bik¹ lam⁴
    • Yale: bīk làhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bik⁷ lam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: big¹ lem⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɪk̚⁵ lɐm²¹/

Verb

迫臨

1. to approach; to get close to; to draw near

   • 最大的和最殘酷的非正義的反革命的戰爭，迫臨在我們的頭上。 [MSC, trad.]
     最大的和最残酷的非正义的反革命的战争，迫临在我们的头上。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1936, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《中國革命戰爭的戰略問題》 (Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Zuì dà de hé zuì cánkù de fēizhèngyì de fǎngémìng de zhànzhēng, pòlín zài wǒmen de tóushàng. [Pinyin]

     The biggest and most ruthless of unjust counter-revolutionary wars is hanging over us.

Synonyms

• 就 (jiù) (literary, or in compounds)
• 接近 (jiējìn)
• 搭近 (Hokkien)
• 攝／摄 (literary, or in compounds)
• 湊近／凑近 (còujìn)
• 貼近／贴近 (tiējìn)
• 迫近 (pòjìn)
• 逼倚 (Hokkien)
• 逼近 (bījìn)