岔子

Chinese

		branch in a road; astray; diverge	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (岔子)		岔	子
simp. #(岔子)		岔	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chàzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄚˋ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caa³ zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chàzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄚˋ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chàzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: chʻa⁴-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: chà-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chah.tzy
    • Palladius: чацзы (čaczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: caa³ zi²
    • Yale: cha jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaa³ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ca³ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaː³³ t͡siː³⁵/

Noun

岔子

1. branch road; byroad; sideroad
2. accident; trouble; something wrong

   • 自古無不犯錯誤的將軍，敵人之有岔子可尋，正如我們自己也難免出岔子，乘敵之隙的可能性是存在的。 [MSC, trad.]
     自古无不犯错误的将军，敌人之有岔子可寻，正如我们自己也难免出岔子，乘敌之隙的可能性是存在的。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Zìgǔ wú bù fàn cuòwù de jiāngjūn, dírén zhī yǒu chàzi kě xún, zhèngrú wǒmen zìjǐ yě nánmiǎn chū chàzi, chéng dí zhī xì de kěnéngxìng shì cúnzài de. [Pinyin]

     History has never known an infallible general and the enemy makes mistakes just as we ourselves can hardly avoid making them; hence, the possibility exists of exploiting the enemy's errors.

Synonyms

• (branch road):

• 分叉路 (fan¹ caa¹ lou⁶) (Cantonese, Hokkien)
• 分岔路 (Cantonese)
• 叉路 (chālù)
• 岔路 (chàlù)
• 岔道 (chàdào)

 

• (accident):

• 不幸事件 (bùxìng shìjiàn)
• 不測／不测 (bùcè)
• 事故 (shìgù)
• 失閃／失闪 (shīshǎn)
• 好歹 (hǎodǎi)
• 差池
• 差錯／差错 (chācuò)
• 意外 (yìwài)
• 故事 (archic)
• 緣故／缘故 (yuángù) (archaic)
• 變故／变故 (biàngù)
• 長短／长短 (chángduǎn)
• 閃失／闪失 (shǎnshī)

 

Derived terms

• 出岔子 (chū chàzi)