借屍還魂

Chinese

		to lend; to borrow; excuse to lend; to borrow; excuse; pretext; by means of	corpse	to return from the dead; to revive after death; to recycle to return from the dead; to revive after death; to recycle; to be reprocessed
trad. (借屍還魂)		借	屍	還魂
simp. (借尸还魂)		借	尸	还魂
Literally: “reincarnated in someone else's body”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jièshīhuánhún

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄕㄏㄨㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ze³ si¹ waan⁴ wan⁴
Min Nan (POJ): chioh-si-hoân-hûn

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: jièshīhuánhún
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄕㄏㄨㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄣˊ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiehshyhwanhwen
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹ ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ xu̯a̠n³⁵ xu̯ən³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ze³ si¹ waan⁴ wan⁴
  - Yale: je sī wàahn wàhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dze³ si¹ waan⁴ wan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: zé³ xi¹ wan⁴ wen⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sɛː³³ siː⁵⁵ wɑːn²¹ wɐn²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chioh-si-hoân-hûn
  - Tâi-lô: tsioh-si-huân-hûn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: cioihsi'hoanhuun
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕio(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ ɕi⁴⁴⁻²² huan²⁴⁻²² hun²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕio(ʔ)⁵ ɕi³³ huan²⁴⁻²² hun²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕio(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ ɕi⁴⁴⁻²² huan¹³⁻²² hun¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕio(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ ɕi⁴⁴⁻³³ huan²⁴⁻¹¹ hun²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɤ(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ ɕi⁴⁴⁻³³ huan²³⁻³³ hun²³/

Idiom

借屍還魂

(figuratively) a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise

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