失禮

失禮

See also: 失礼

Chinese

Chinese phrasebook

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		to lose; to miss; to fail	gift; propriety; rite
trad. (失禮)		失	禮
simp. (失礼)		失	礼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shīlǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄕ ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sat¹ lai⁵
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sṳt-lî

  (Meixian, Guangdong): sed⁵ li¹

• Min Dong (BUC): sék-lā̤
• Min Nan (POJ): sit-lé
• Wu (Wiktionary): seq li (T4)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shīlǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄕ ㄌㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shihlǐ
    • Wade–Giles: shih¹-li³
    • Yale: shr̄-lǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shylii
    • Palladius: шили (šili)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 失禮／失礼 施禮／施礼

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: sat¹ lai⁵
    • Yale: sāt láih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sat⁷ lai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: sed¹ lei⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐt̚⁵ lɐi̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳt-lî
    • Hakka Romanization System: siid` li´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sid⁵ li¹
    • Sinological IPA: /sɨt̚² li²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: sed⁵ li¹
    • Sinological IPA: /sət̚¹ li⁴⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sék-lā̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siʔ²⁴⁻³⁵ l̃ɛ³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sit-lé
    • Tâi-lô: sit-lé
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sitlea
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕit̚³²⁻⁴ le⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕit̚⁵⁻²⁴ le⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕit̚³²⁻⁵ le⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕit̚³²⁻⁴ le⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕit̚³²⁻⁴ le⁴¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: seq li (T4)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /səʔ³³ li⁴⁴/

Verb

失禮

1. to lack manners; to be impolite; to breach etiquette

   • 君子曰：「失禮違命，宜其為禽也。戎，昭果毅以聽之，之謂禮。殺敵為果，致果為毅。易之，戮也。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     君子曰：“失礼违命，宜其为禽也。戎，昭果毅以听之，之谓礼。杀敌为果，致果为毅。易之，戮也。” [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE, translation from Zuozhuan: Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals" (2017), by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li and David Schaberg

     Jūnzǐ yuē: “Shīlǐ wéimìng, yí qí wéiqín yě. Róng, zhāo guǒyì yǐ tīng zhī, zhī wèi lǐ. Shādí wéi guǒ, zhìguǒ wéi yì. Yì zhī, lù yě.” [Pinyin]

     The noble man said, “He deviated from ritual propriety and disobeyed commands. It is fitting that he became a captive. In martial affairs, to manifest decisiveness and determination in obeying commands is ritual propriety. To kill the enemy is decisiveness; to sustain decisiveness is determination. To change this is to incur punishment and execution.”

   • 臣當死，往者醉失禮，王隱忍不加誅也；臣終不敢以蔭蔽之德而不顯報王也，常願肝腦塗地，用頸血湔敵久矣，臣乃夜絕纓者。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     臣当死，往者醉失礼，王隐忍不加诛也；臣终不敢以荫蔽之德而不显报王也，常愿肝脑涂地，用颈血湔敌久矣，臣乃夜绝缨者。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 77 B.C.E., 劉向 (Liu Xiang), 《說苑》 (Garden of Stories), chapter 6

     Chén dāng sǐ, wǎngzhě zuì shīlǐ, wáng yǐnrěn bù jiā zhū yě; chén zhōng bùgǎn yǐ yīnbì zhī dé ér bùxiǎn bào wáng yě, cháng yuàn gānnǎotúdì, yòng jǐng xuè jiān dí jiǔ yǐ, chén nǎi yè juéyīng zhě. [Pinyin]

     I should have been put to death. In the past, I got drunk and forgot my manners. Your Majesty showed restraint and did not put me to death. I would never dare not overtly repay Your Majesty's covert kindness. I would rather put my life on the line and drown the enemy in my own blood, for I am the one whose headpiece cord was yanked off on that night.

Synonyms

• 沒禮貌／没礼貌
• 無禮／无礼 (wúlǐ)
• (Cantonese) 冇禮貌／冇礼貌
• (Min Nan) 無紀綱／无纪纲, 無紀無綱／无纪无纲

Interjection

失禮

1. (chiefly Min, Hakka) I'm sorry; excuse me

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 對不起 (“sorry”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		對不起
Mandarin	Beijing	對不起
	Taiwan	對不起
	Malaysia	對不起
	Singapore	對不起
Cantonese	Guangzhou	對唔住
	Hong Kong	對唔住, sorry, sor informal
	Taishan	對唔住
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	對唔住
	Singapore (Guangfu)	對唔住
Hakka	Meixian	對唔住
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	失禮, 敗勢, 斯里麻生
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	失禮, 壞勢, 斯里麻生
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	失禮, 敗勢, 斯里麻生
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	失禮, 敗勢, 歪勢, 斯里麻生
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	失禮, 敗勢, 斯里麻生
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	失禮, 歹勢, 斯里麻生
	Singapore (Dabu)	敗勢
Jin	Taiyuan	對不起
Min Dong	Matsu	對不住
Min Nan	Xiamen	歹勢, 對不住, 失禮
	Quanzhou	歹勢, 對不住
	Zhangzhou	䆀勢, 對不住
	Taipei	失禮, 歹勢
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	失禮
	Kaohsiung	失禮, 歹勢
	Yilan	失禮
	Changhua (Lukang)	失禮, 歹勢
	Taichung	失禮
	Taichung (Wuqi)	失禮
	Tainan	失禮, 歹勢
	Taitung	歹勢
	Hsinchu	失禮
	Kinmen	失禮
	Penghu (Magong)	失禮
	Penang (Hokkien)	歹勢, sorry
	Singapore (Hokkien)	歹勢, 對毋住, sorry
	Manila (Hokkien)	歹勢, 對不住
	Chaozhou	對唔住
	Shantou	對唔住
	Singapore (Teochew)	對唔住, 歹勢
Wu	Shanghai	勿好意思, 對勿起
	Ningbo	交代勿過, 勿好意思
Xiang	Changsha	對不住

Further reading

• “Entry #1836”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
失	禮
しつ Grade: 4	れい Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 失禮 – see the following entry.

【失礼しつれい】 [adjective] rude, impolite, ill-mannered [noun] rudeness, impoliteness [interjection] I'm sorry, excuse me [verb] to be rude, to do something rude

(This term, 失禮, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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Korean

Hanja in this term
失	禮

Noun

失禮 • (sillye) (hangeul 실례)

1. Hanja form^? of 실례 (“discourtesy, bad manners”).

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Vietnamese

Hán tự in this term
失	禮

Adjective

失禮

1. chữ Hán form of thất lễ (“impolite”).