食不言，寢不語

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	not; no	to speak; to say; talk to speak; to say; talk; word		lie down	not; no	speech; language; dialect speech; language; dialect; tell to
trad. (食不言，寢不語)		食	不	言	，	寢	不	語
simp. (食不言，寝不语)		食	不	言	，	寝	不	语

Etymology

From the Analects, Book 10 (《論語·鄉黨》):

祭肉不出三日。出三日，不食之矣。食不語，寢不言。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
祭肉不出三日。出三日，不食之矣。食不语，寝不言。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
Jì ròu bù chū sān rì. Chū sān rì, bù shí zhī yǐ. Shí bù yǔ, qǐn bù yán. [Pinyin]
The flesh of his family sacrifice he did not keep over three days. If kept over three days, people could not eat it. When eating, he did not converse. When in bed, he did not speak.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shí bù yán, qǐn bù yǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄧㄢˊ , ㄑㄧㄣˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄩˇ

Cantonese (Jyutping): sik⁶ bat¹ jin⁴, cam² bat¹ jyu⁵

Mandarin
(Standard Chinese)⁺
Hanyu Pinyin: shí bù yán, qǐn bù yǔ

Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄧㄢˊ , ㄑㄧㄣˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄩˇ

Tongyong Pinyin: shíh bù yán, cǐn bù yǔ

Wade–Giles: shih² pu⁴ yen², chʻin³ pu⁴ yü³

Yale: shŕ bù yán-, chǐn bù yǔ

Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyr bu yan, chiin bu yeu

Palladius: ши бу янь, цинь бу юй (ši bu janʹ, cinʹ bu juj)

Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ pu⁵¹ jɛn³⁵ t͡ɕʰin²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Cantonese
(Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
Jyutping: sik⁶ bat¹ jin⁴, cam² bat¹ jyu⁵

Yale: sihk bāt yìhn, chám bāt yúh

Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁹ bat⁷ jin⁴, tsam² bat⁷ jy⁵

Guangdong Romanization: xig⁶ bed¹ yin⁴, cem² bed¹ yu⁵

Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚² pɐt̚⁵ jiːn²¹ t͡sʰɐm³⁵ pɐt̚⁵ jyː¹³/

Proverb

食不言，寢不語

to not speak while eating or sleeping

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