打草驚蛇

See also: 打草惊蛇

Chinese

		beat; strike; break beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen	grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty	to startle; to be frightened; to be scared to startle; to be frightened; to be scared; alarm	snake; serpent
trad. (打草驚蛇)		打	草	驚	蛇
simp. (打草惊蛇)		打	草	惊	蛇
Literally: “to beat the grass and startle the snake”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dǎcǎojīngshé

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˇ ㄘㄠˇ ㄐㄧㄥ ㄕㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daa² cou² ging¹ se⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): táⁿ-chháu-kiaⁿ-chôa / táⁿ-chhó-keng-siâ / táⁿ-chháu-kiaⁿ-siâ / táⁿ-chháu-keng-siâ / táⁿ-chhó-kiaⁿ-siâ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): da² cao² gian¹ zua⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dǎcǎojīngshé [Phonetic: dácǎojīngshé]
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˇ ㄘㄠˇ ㄐㄧㄥ ㄕㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dǎcǎojingshé
    • Wade–Giles: ta³-tsʻao³-ching¹-shê²
    • Yale: dǎ-tsǎu-jīng-shé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daatsaojingsher
    • Palladius: дацаоцзиншэ (dacaoczinšɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ʂɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daa² cou² ging¹ se⁴
    • Yale: dá chóu gīng sèh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daa² tsou² ging¹ se⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: da² cou² ging¹ sé⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taː³⁵ t͡sʰou̯³⁵ kɪŋ⁵⁵ sɛː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: táⁿ-chháu-kiaⁿ-chôa
    • Tâi-lô: tánn-tsháu-kiann-tsuâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvafzhaw'kviazoaa
    • IPA (Taipei): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰau⁵³ kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sua²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰau⁴¹ kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sua²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰau⁵³ kiã⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sua²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: táⁿ-chhó-keng-siâ
    • Tâi-lô: tánn-tshó-king-siâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvafzhoy'kengsiaa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰo⁵³ kiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² sia²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: táⁿ-chháu-kiaⁿ-siâ
    • Tâi-lô: tánn-tsháu-kiann-siâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvafzhaw'kviasiaa
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰau⁴¹ kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ sia²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰau⁵³ kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ sia²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: táⁿ-chháu-keng-siâ
    • Tâi-lô: tánn-tsháu-king-siâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvafzhaw'kengsiaa
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰau⁴¹ kiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ sia²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰau⁵³ kiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ sia²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: táⁿ-chhó-kiaⁿ-siâ
    • Tâi-lô: tánn-tshó-kiann-siâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dvafzhoy'kviasiaa
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tã⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰɤ⁴¹ kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ sia²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tã⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡sʰo⁵³ kiã⁴⁴⁻³³ sia²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: da² cao² gian¹ zua⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tá tsháu kiaⁿ tsuâ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ta⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡sʰau⁵² kĩã³³⁻²³ t͡sua⁵⁵/

Idiom

打草驚蛇

1. to give away your position through rash actions; to alert someone of your presence unwittingly

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 打草驚蛇 (“to give away your position through rash actions; to alert someone of your presence unwittingly”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		打草驚蛇, 打草蛇驚
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	打草驚蛇
Cantonese	Hong Kong	打草驚蛇
Southern Min	Xiamen	挓草驚蛇, 拍草驚蛇, 拍生驚, 拍驚
	Tainan	挓草驚蛇, 拍生驚
	Jieyang	打草驚蛇

See also

• Thai: แหวกหญ้าให้งูตื่น