拍馬屁
Appearance
See also: 拍马屁
Chinese
[edit]to clap; to pat; to beat to clap; to pat; to beat; to hit; to slap; to take (a picture) |
horse's backside; flattery; adulation | ||
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trad. (拍馬屁) | 拍 | 馬屁 | |
simp. (拍马屁) | 拍 | 马屁 | |
Literally: “to pat a horse's buttocks”. |
Etymology
[edit]It is said that nomads in northern China would pat a horse's buttocks to approve of the horse for its health.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): paak3 maa5 pei3
- Gan (Wiktionary): pah6 ma3 pi
- Jin (Wiktionary): pai1 ma2 pi3
- Eastern Min (BUC): páh-mā-pé
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 7phaq 6mo-phi; 7phaq-mo-phi
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): pe6 ma3 pi4
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄞ ㄇㄚˇ ㄆㄧˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: pai mǎpì
- Wade–Giles: pʻai1 ma3-pʻi4
- Yale: pāi mǎ-pì
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pai maapih
- Palladius: пай мапи (paj mapi)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰaɪ̯⁵⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ pʰi⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: paak3 maa5 pei3
- Yale: paak máh pei
- Cantonese Pinyin: paak8 maa5 pei3
- Guangdong Romanization: pag3 ma5 péi3
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰaːk̚³ maː¹³ pʰei̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Gan
- (Nanchang)
- Wiktionary: pah6 ma3 pi
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰaʔ⁵ ma²¹³⁻²¹ pʰi¹/
- (Nanchang)
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: pai1 ma2 pi3
- Sinological IPA (old-style, no sandhi): /pʰai¹¹ ma⁵³ pʰi⁴⁵/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: páh-mā-pé
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰaʔ²⁴⁻²¹ ma³³⁻⁵⁵ (pʰ-)βɛi²¹³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Wu
- Xiang
- (Changsha)
- Wiktionary: pe6 ma3 pi4
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰɤ̞²⁴ ma̠⁴¹ pʰi⁴⁵/
- (Changsha)
Verb
[edit]拍⫽馬屁 (verb-object)
- (idiomatic, colloquial, intransitive) to brownnose; to kiss someone's ass; to suck up to
Synonyms
[edit]Dialectal synonyms of 拍馬屁 (“to brownnose; to suck up to”) [map]
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