裝蒜

裝蒜

Chinese

		to dress up; costume; to pretend to be to dress up; costume; to pretend to be; to pack; to load; to install	garlic
trad. (裝蒜)		裝	蒜
simp. (装蒜)		装	蒜
Literally: “to pretend to be garlic”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuāngsuàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄤ ㄙㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zong¹ syun³
• Min Nan (POJ): chong-soàn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuāngsuàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄤ ㄙㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuangsuàn
    • Wade–Giles: chuang¹-suan⁴
    • Yale: jwāng-swàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juangsuann
    • Palladius: чжуансуань (čžuansuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂwɑŋ⁵⁵ swän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zong¹ syun³
    • Yale: jōng syun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzong¹ syn³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zong¹ xun³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːŋ⁵⁵ ʃyːn³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chong-soàn
    • Tâi-lô: tsong-suàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zongsoaxn
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² suan²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔŋ³³ suan⁴¹/

Verb

裝蒜

1. (informal) to feign ignorance; to pretend not to know

Synonyms

• (Min Nan) 𩏠生／𫖖生