美人計

Chinese

		beautiful woman; beauty; belle beautiful woman; beauty; belle; royal consort	to calculate; to compute; to count to calculate; to compute; to count; reckon; ruse; to plan
trad. (美人計)		美人	計
simp. (美人计)		美人	计

Etymology

Strategem #31 in the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): měirénjì

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˇ ㄖㄣˊ ㄐㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁵ jan⁴ gai³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: měirénjì
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˇ ㄖㄣˊ ㄐㄧˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeirenjih
  - IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ʐən³⁵ t͡ɕi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mei⁵ jan⁴ gai³
  - Yale: méih yàhn gai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁵ jan⁴ gai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: méi⁵ yen⁴ gei³
  - IPA ^(key): /mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹ kɐi̯³³/

Noun

美人計

honey trap; beauty trap; honeypot; sexual entrapment

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