空城計

Chinese

		abandoned city; empty city	to calculate; to compute; to count to calculate; to compute; to count; reckon; ruse; to plan
trad. (空城計)		空城	計
simp. (空城计)		空城	计

Etymology

Strategem #32 in the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kōngchéngjì

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄥㄔㄥˊ ㄐㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hung¹ sing⁴ gai³
Min Nan (POJ): khang-siâⁿ-kè

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: kōngchéngjì
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥㄔㄥˊ ㄐㄧˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kongcherngjih
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵ t͡ɕi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: hung¹ sing⁴ gai³
  - Yale: hūng sìhng gai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹ sing⁴ gai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: hung¹ xing⁴ gei³
  - IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ sɪŋ²¹ kɐi̯³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khang-siâⁿ-kè
  - Tâi-lô: khang-siânn-kè
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qangsvia'kex
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² ɕiã²⁴⁻²² ke²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰaŋ³³ ɕiã²⁴⁻²² ke⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² ɕiã¹³⁻²² ke²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ ɕiã²⁴⁻¹¹ ke¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ ɕiã²³⁻³³ ke²¹/

Noun

空城計

Empty Fort Strategy (strategy to deceive the enemy into thinking that an empty location is full of traps and ambushes)
(figuratively) hungry stomach

Derived terms

唱空城計／唱空城计

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