半文半白

半文半白

Chinese

		half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half	language; culture; writing language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle	half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half	white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous
simp. and trad. (半文半白)		半	文	半	白

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bànwénbànbái

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˋ ㄨㄣˊ ㄅㄢˋ ㄅㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bun³ man⁴ bun³ baak⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bànwénbànbái
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄨㄣˊ ㄅㄢˋ ㄅㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bànwúnbànbái
    • Wade–Giles: pan⁴-wên²-pan⁴-pai²
    • Yale: bàn-wén-bàn-bái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bannwenbannbair
    • Palladius: баньвэньбаньбай (banʹvɛnʹbanʹbaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵¹ wən³⁵ pän⁵¹ paɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bun³ man⁴ bun³ baak⁶
    • Yale: bun màhn bun baahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bun³ man⁴ bun³ baak⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bun³ men⁴ bun³ bag⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puːn³³ mɐn²¹ puːn³³ paːk̚²/

Idiom

半文半白

1. half literary, half vernacular

   • 現在許多同志的文章，空話連篇的也有，但比較少；主要的缺點就是古文多，半文半白的味道很大。 [MSC, trad.]
     现在许多同志的文章，空话连篇的也有，但比较少；主要的缺点就是古文多，半文半白的味道很大。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1955, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《農業合作化的一場辯論和當前的階級鬥爭》 (The Debate on the Co-operative Transformation of Agriculture and the Current Class Struggle), 《毛澤東選集·第五卷》 (Selected Works of Mao Zedong: Volume V) (1977). English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Xiànzài xǔduō tóngzhì de wénzhāng, kōnghuàliánpiān de yě yǒu, dàn bǐjiào shǎo; zhǔyào de quēdiǎn jiùshì gǔwén duō, bànwénbànbái de wèidào hěn dà. [Pinyin]

     Now, of the articles written by many comrades, some are long-winded and devoid of substance, but these are relatively few; the chief defects are an overuse of classical Chinese and too strong a flavour of the semi-literary, semi-vernacular style.