打馬虎眼

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	careless; sloppy; negligent careless; sloppy; negligent; skimpy	eye
trad. (打馬虎眼)		打	馬虎	眼
simp. (打马虎眼)		打	马虎	眼

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dǎ mǎhuyǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄇㄚˇ ˙ㄏㄨㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² maa⁵ fu² ngaan⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dǎ mǎhuyǎn [Phonetic: dámǎhuyǎn]
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄇㄚˇ ˙ㄏㄨㄧㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: dǎ mǎhůyǎn
  - Wade–Giles: ta³ ma³-hu⁵-yen³
  - Yale: dǎ mǎ-hu-yǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daa maa.huyean
  - Palladius: да махуянь (da maxujanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mä²¹⁴ xu⁴ jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: daa² maa⁵ fu² ngaan⁵
  - Yale: dá máh fú ngáahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daa² maa⁵ fu² ngaan⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: da² ma⁵ fu² ngan⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ maː¹³ fuː³⁵ ŋaːn¹³/

Verb

打⫽馬虎眼 (verb-object)

(dialectal) to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to gloss it over; to act dumb

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