臨急抱佛腳
简 临急抱佛脚 · 繁 臨急抱佛腳Meanings
- to describe the attitude of doing thing(s) at the very last minute; to cram for an immient situation that one should have been prepared for
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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.
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: lin2 ji2 bao4 Fo2 jiao3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
lam4 gap1 pou5 fat6 goek3
Cantonese word readings for 臨急抱佛腳. 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
- (chiefly Cantonese) to do something hurriedly only at the last minute
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