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不登大雅之堂

Mandarin · pinyin bù dēng dà yǎ zhī táng

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不: bù · no, not; un-; negative prefix
登: dēng · rise, mount, board, climb
大: dà · big, great, vast, large, high
雅: yǎ · elegant, graceful, refined
之: zhī · marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to
堂: táng · hall; government office

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

4–1–4–3–1–2 · bu4 deng1 da4 ya3 zhi1 tang2

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bat1 dang1 daai6 ngaa5 zi1 tong4

Cantonese word readings for 不登大雅之堂. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

bat1 dang1 daai6 ngaa5 zi1 tong4

Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.

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(idiomatic) to be unrefined or unpresentable; to be too vulgar for polite company; to not appeal to refined tastes