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失禮

失禮

See also: 失礼

Chinese

to lose; to miss; to fail gift; propriety; rite
trad. (失禮)
simp. (失礼)

Verb

失禮

  1. to lack manners; to be impolite; to breach etiquette

Synonyms

  • 沒禮貌没礼貌
  • 無禮无礼 (wúlǐ)
  • (Cantonese) 冇禮冇礼
  • (Cantonese) 冇禮貌冇礼貌

Interjection

失禮

  1. (chiefly Min, Hakka) I'm sorry; excuse me.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 不好意思 (“excuse me”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 不好意思
Mandarin Beijing 不好意思
Taiwan 不好意思
Cantonese Guangzhou 唔好意思
Hong Kong 唔好意思
Taishan 唔好意思
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 敗勢
Liudui (S. Sixian) 壞勢
Hsinchu (Hailu) 敗勢
Dongshi (Dabu) 敗勢、歪勢
Zhuolan (Raoping) 敗勢
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 歹勢
Min Nan Quanzhou 歹勢
Xiamen 歹勢
Zhangzhou 䆀勢
Taipei 歹勢失禮
Kaohsiung 歹勢失禮
Tainan 歹勢失禮
Taichung 歹勢失禮
Yilan 歹勢失禮
Lukang 歹勢失禮
Sanxia 歹勢失禮
Kinmen 歹勢失禮
Magong 歹勢失禮
Hsinchu 歹勢失禮
Malaysia 歹勢、無好意思
Chaozhou 孬意思
Wu Shanghai 勿好意思

Japanese

Kanji in this term
しつ
Grade: 4
れい
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Adjective

失禮 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 失礼, -na inflection, hiragana しつれい, romaji shitsurei)

  1. rude, impolite, ill-mannered

Noun

失禮 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 失礼, hiragana しつれい, romaji shitsurei)

  1. rudeness, impoliteness

Usage notes

This spelling is no longer used. See the modern spelling at 失礼 for more details on this word.


Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

失禮 (sillye) (hangeul 실례)

  1. Hanja form? of 실례, “discourtesy, bad manners”.