Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
好逸惡勞
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Remove ads
Chinese
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: hàoyì-wùláo
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˋ ㄧˋ ㄨˋ ㄌㄠˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: hàoyìwùláo
- Wade–Giles: hao4-i4-wu4-lao2
- Yale: hàu-yì-wù-láu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hawyihwuhlau
- Palladius: хаоиулао (xaoiulao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /xɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ i⁵¹⁻⁵³ u⁵¹ lɑʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: hou3 jat6 wu3 lou4
- Yale: hou yaht wu lòuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: hou3 jat9 wu3 lou4
- Guangdong Romanization: hou3 yed6 wu3 lou4
- Sinological IPA (key): /hou̯³³ jɐt̚² wuː³³ lou̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Idiom
好逸惡勞
- (derogatory) to indulge in comfort and despise laboring
- 豈古之人有所異哉！好逸惡勞，亦猶夫人之情也。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
- From: 1663, 黃宗義 (Huang Zongxi),《原君》(On Kingship)
- Qǐ gǔ zhī rén yǒusuǒ yì zāi! Hàoyì-wùláo, yì yóu fú rén zhī qíng yě. [Pinyin]
- Was there anything extraordinary in the ancients? That they naturally preferred ease and disliked labor—this is precisely the common nature of man.
岂古之人有所异哉！好逸恶劳，亦犹夫人之情也。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]
Synonyms
Remove ads
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads