太阿倒持

Chinese

		a sword; power; authority	upset; turn over; to tip upset; turn over; to tip; to pour; to go home; to the contrary; inverted; to fall; to collapse; to topple; to change; to fail; bankrupt	to grasp; to hold; support to grasp; to hold; support; manage; direct; maintain
trad. (太阿倒持)		太阿	倒	持
simp. #(太阿倒持)		太阿	倒	持
Literally: “to hold the sword by the blade”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Tài'ē dàochí

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄞˋ ㄜ ㄉㄠˋ ㄔˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taai³ o¹ dou² ci⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Tài'ē dàochí
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄞˋ ㄜ ㄉㄠˋ ㄔˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Tài-e dàochíh
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻai⁴-o¹ tao⁴-chʻih²
    • Yale: Tài-ē dàu-chŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Taye dawchyr
    • Palladius: Тайэ даочи (Tajɛ daoči)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ ˀɤ⁵⁵ tɑʊ̯⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: taai³ o¹ dou² ci⁴
    • Yale: taai ō dóu chìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taai³ o¹ dou² tsi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tai³ o¹ dou² qi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːi̯³³ ɔː⁵⁵ tou̯³⁵ t͡sʰiː²¹/

Idiom

太阿倒持

1. to surrender one's power to another at one's own peril