不動聲色

See also: 不动声色

Chinese

		not; no	to move; to change; to use to move; to change; to use; to act	voice and countenance
trad. (不動聲色)		不	動	聲色
simp. (不动声色)		不	动	声色

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùdòngshēngsè

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄕㄥㄙㄜˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ dung⁶ sing¹ sik¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùdòngshēngsè [Phonetic: búdòngshēngsè]
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄕㄥㄙㄜˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùdòngshengsè
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-tung⁴-shêng¹-sê⁴
  - Yale: bù-dùng-shēng-sè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: budonqshengseh
  - Palladius: будуншэнсэ (budunšɛnsɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ tʊŋ⁵¹ ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ sɤ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ dung⁶ sing¹ sik¹
  - Yale: bāt duhng sīng sīk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ dung⁶ sing¹ sik⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ dung⁶ xing¹ xig¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ tʊŋ²² sɪŋ⁵⁵ sɪk̚⁵/

Idiom

不動聲色

to maintain one's composure; to stay calm and collected; to not turn a hair; to not bat an eyelid; to not show or betray one's feelings or intentions
- 一名男子偷窺女廁所　機智女子不動聲色報警擒色狼 [MSC, trad.]
  一名男子偷窥女厕所　机智女子不动声色报警擒色狼 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 2005: 黄智义 (Huang Zhiyi), 一名男子偷窥女厕所机智女子不动声色报警擒色狼 (news headline)
  yī míng nánzǐ tōukuī nǚcèsuǒ, jīzhì nǚzǐ bùdòngshēngsè bàojǐng qín sèláng [Pinyin]
  Man caught peeping into female bathroom; quick-thinking woman kept her cool and reported it to the police; sexual predator arrested

Synonyms

不露聲色／不露声色 (bùlùshēngsè)

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