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草菅人命

草菅人命

Chinese

		grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty	(grass); Themeda forsbali	human life
simp. and trad. (草菅人命)		草	菅	人命

Idiom

草菅人命

to regard human life as if it were as worthless as straw

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): cǎojiānrénmìng

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄠˇ ㄐㄧㄢㄖㄣˊ ㄇㄧㄥˋ
Min Nan (POJ): chháu-kan-jîn-bēng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: cǎojiānrénmìng
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄠˇ ㄐㄧㄢㄖㄣˊ ㄇㄧㄥˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaojianrenminq
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʐən³⁵ miŋ⁵¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chháu-kan-jîn-bēng
  - Tâi-lô: tsháu-kan-jîn-bīng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhaw'kanjinbeng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰaʊ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kan⁴⁴⁻²² d͡ʑin²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰaʊ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ kan³³ d͡ʑin²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰaʊ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kan⁴⁴⁻²² d͡ʑin¹³⁻²² biɪŋ²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰaʊ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kan⁴⁴⁻³³ d͡ʑin²⁴⁻¹¹ biɪŋ³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰaʊ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kan⁴⁴⁻³³ d͡ʑin²³⁻³³ biɪŋ³³/