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攻其不備

简攻其不备 · 繁攻其不備

Cantonese · source Jyutpinggung1 kei4 bat1 bei6

verb; attack before the enemy
someone is prepared

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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.

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Reading & tones

gung11 · high levelkei44 · low fallingbat11 · high levelchecked · -tbei66 · low level

Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.

Same syllable, six tones

gung公gung1head of a gang or mafia 拱gung2to cup one's hands in salute 贡gung3wander around with no aimgung4—gung5—共gung6common

kei崎kei1mountainous 婍kei2冀kei3another name for Hebei province 奇kei4strange 企kei5to plan a projectkei6—

bat不bat1notbat2—bat3—bat4—bat5—拔bat6to pull up

bei碑bei1a monument 彼bei2that 秘bei3secretbei4—bei5—备bei6to prepare

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.

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Written characters

攻其不備备

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

攻其不備 gōng qí bù bèi CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsee 出其不意，攻其不備 chū qí bù yì, gōng qí bù bèi

A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: gong1 qi2 bu4 bei4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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