節哀

Chinese

		festival; section; segment festival; section; segment; point; part; to economize; to save; temperate	sorrow; grief; pity sorrow; grief; pity; to grieve for; to pity; to lament
trad. (節哀)		節	哀
simp. (节哀)		节	哀

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jié'āi

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zit³ oi¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiat-ai

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jié'āi
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄞ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jié-ai
    • Wade–Giles: chieh²-ai¹
    • Yale: jyé-āi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyeai
    • Palladius: цзеай (czeaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵ ˀaɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zit³ oi¹
    • Yale: jit ōi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzit⁸ oi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jid³ oi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːt̚³ ɔːi̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiat-ai
    • Tâi-lô: tsiat-ai
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciat'ay
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡siɛt̚³²⁻⁴ ai⁴⁴/

Verb

節哀

1. (literary) to restrain one's grief (often used to console family of a deceased person)

Derived terms

• 節哀順變／节哀顺变 (jié'āishùnbiàn)