碎屍萬段

Chinese

		to dismember a corpse; to cut up a corpse into small pieces	ten thousand; a great number; surname	paragraph; section; segment
trad. (碎屍萬段)		碎屍	萬	段
simp. (碎尸万段)		碎尸	万	段

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): suìshīwànduàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˋ ㄕ ㄨㄢˋ ㄉㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi³ si¹ maan⁶ dyun⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suìshīwànduàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˋ ㄕ ㄨㄢˋ ㄉㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suèishihwànduàn
    • Wade–Giles: sui⁴-shih¹-wan⁴-tuan⁴
    • Yale: swèi-shr̄-wàn-dwàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sueyshywannduann
    • Palladius: суйшиваньдуань (sujšivanʹduanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯⁵¹ ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ wän⁵¹⁻⁵³ tu̯än⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi³ si¹ maan⁶ dyun⁶
    • Yale: seui sī maahn dyuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey³ si¹ maan⁶ dyn⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu³ xi¹ man⁶ dün⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³³ siː⁵⁵ maːn²² tyːn²²/

Idiom

碎屍萬段

1. to dismember a corpse into numerous small pieces; to cut up a corpse into many small pieces

   我要把你碎屍萬段！ [MSC, trad.]
   我要把你碎尸万段！ [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ yào bǎ nǐ suìshīwànduàn! [Pinyin]

   I'll chop your corpse into pieces!

Usage notes

Usually used as a phrase for threatening others.