打馬虎眼

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen
trad. (打馬虎眼)		打	馬虎眼
simp. (打马虎眼)		打	马虎眼

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): dǎ mǎhuyǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄇㄚˇ ˙ㄏㄨㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² maa⁵ fu² ngaan⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: dǎ mǎhuyǎn [Phonetic: dámǎhuyǎn]
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄇㄚˇ ˙ㄏㄨㄧㄢˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daa maa.huyean
  - IPA ^(key): /ta̠²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ma̠²¹⁴ xu⁴ i̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: daa² maa⁵ fu² ngaan⁵
  - Yale: dá máh fú ngáahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: daa² maa⁵ fu² ngaan⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: da² ma⁵ fu² ngan⁵
  - IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ maː¹³ fuː³⁵ ŋaːn¹³/

Verb

打馬虎眼

(dialectal) to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to gloss it over; to act dumb

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