閒事

See also: 闲事

Chinese

		idle; interstice; separate	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
trad. (閒事/閑事)		閒/閑	事
simp. (闲事)		闲	事

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiánshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haan⁴ si⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hàn-sṳ
• Jin (Wiktionary): xie¹ qi³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): êng-sū / hân-sīr

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiánshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siánshìh
    • Wade–Giles: hsien²-shih⁴
    • Yale: syán-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyanshyh
    • Palladius: сяньши (sjanʹši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiánshìr
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄕˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siánshìhr
    • Wade–Giles: hsien²-shih⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: syán-shìr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyanshell
    • Palladius: сяньшир (sjanʹšir)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn³⁵ ʂʐ̩ɻ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: haan⁴ si⁶
    • Yale: hàahn sih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haan⁴ si⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: han⁴ xi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːn²¹ siː²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hàn-sṳ
    • Hakka Romanization System: hanˇ sii
    • Hagfa Pinyim: han² si⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /han¹¹ sɨ⁵⁵/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: xie¹ qi³
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /ɕie¹¹ t͡ɕʰi⁴⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: êng-sū
    • Tâi-lô: îng-sū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: engsu
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ su³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɪŋ²³⁻³³ su³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪŋ¹³⁻²² su²²/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɪŋ²⁴⁻²² su²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hân-sīr
    • Tâi-lô: hân-sīr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /han²⁴⁻²² sɯ⁴¹/

Noun

閒事

1. other people's business
2. unimportant matter; trivial matter

Synonyms

• (other people's business): (Xiang) 空路, 空頭路／空头路, 空路徑／空路径, 粟路

Derived terms

• 管閒事／管闲事 (guǎnxiánshì)