明人不說暗話
简 明人不说暗话 · 繁 明人不說暗話Meanings
- a straight talker does not resort to insinuations
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.
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: ming2 ren2 bu4 shuo1 an4 hua4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
ming4 jan4 bat1 syut3 am3 waa2
Cantonese word readings for 明人不說暗話. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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