陰差陽錯
Chinese
- (of weather) overcast; Yin; feminine; moon; cloudy; negative (electric.); shadydiffer from; short of; to lack; poor; send; a messenger; a mission; to commission; uneven; difference; discrepancy; to differ; error; to err; to make a mistake
positive (electric.); sun; male mistake; error; blunder; fault; cross; uneven; wrongtrad. (陰差陽錯) 陰 差 陽 錯 simp. (阴差阳错) 阴 差 阳 错 Intercalation of 陰陽／阴阳 (yīnyáng) and 差錯／差错 (chācuò).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄣ ㄔㄚ ㄧㄤˊ ㄘㄨㄛˋ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: inchayangtsuoh
- IPA (key): /in⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰa̠⁵⁵ i̯ɑŋ³⁵ t͡sʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: jam1 caa1 joeng4 co3
- Yale: yām chā yèuhng cho
- Cantonese Pinyin: jam1 tsaa1 joeng4 tso3
- Guangdong Romanization: yem1 ca1 yêng4 co3
- IPA (key): /jɐm⁵⁵ t͡sʰɑː⁵⁵ jœːŋ²¹ t͡sʰɔː³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
Idiom
陰差陽錯
- an accident, mistake or event arising from many different unforeseen causes; a strange combination of circumstances; accidentally; serendipitously
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