一五一十
Chinese
- one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)
five one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)ten simp. and trad.
(一五一十)一 五 一 十 Literally: “one five, one ten”.
Etymology
From counting by fives.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): jat1 ng5 jat1 sap6
- Gan (Wiktionary): it6 ng3 it6 siit7
- Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): yid5 n3 yid5 seb6
- Wu (Wiktionary): iq hhngg iq zeq (T4)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄨˇ ㄧ ㄕˊ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi1wuuyi1shyr
- IPA (key): /i⁵⁵ u²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ i⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: jat1 ng5 jat1 sap6
- Yale: yāt ńgh yāt sahp
- Cantonese Pinyin: jat7 ng5 jat7 sap9
- Guangdong Romanization: yed1 ng5 yed1 seb6
- IPA (key): /jɐt̚⁵ ŋ̍¹³ jɐt̚⁵ sɐp̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Gan
- Hakka
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: iq hhngg iq zeq (T4)
- IPA (key): /i̯ɪʔ³³ ɦŋ̍⁵⁵ i̯ɪʔ³³ z̻əʔ²¹/
- (Shanghainese)
Idiom
一五一十
- (of narrating) in full detail
- Tā bǎ zhè jiàn shìqíng yīwǔyīshí de gàosù le wǒ. [Pinyin]
- He told me the whole thing in detail.
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