一朵鮮花插在牛糞上
简 一朵鲜花插在牛粪上 · 繁 一朵鮮花插在牛糞上Meanings
- lit. a fresh flower planted on a cow dung, meaning a relationship where the woman has great qualities, where the man has not, or much inferior (especially use in looks)
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Tone difference from Unihan
- 上 is read soeng5 here; Unihan’s citation reading is soeng6. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 上 soeng5 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: yi1 duo3 xian1 hua1 cha1 zai4 niu2 fen4 shang5. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
jat1 do2 sin1 faa1 caap3 zoi6 ngau4 fan3 soeng5 · jat1 do2 sin1 faa1 caap3 zoi6 ngau4 fan3 soeng6
Cantonese word readings for 一朵鮮花插在牛糞上. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
phrase
- (figurative) a beautiful or talented woman married to an ugly or untalented husband
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