出岔子

Chinese

		to go out; to come out; to occur to go out; to come out; to occur; to produce; to go beyond; to rise; to put forth; to happen; (a measure word for dramas, plays, or operas)	branch road; byroad; sideroad branch road; byroad; sideroad; accident; trouble; something wrong
trad. (出岔子)		出	岔子
simp. #(出岔子)		出	岔子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chū chàzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨ ㄔㄚˋ ˙ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceot¹ caa³ zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chū chàzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨ ㄔㄚˋ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chu chàzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: chʻu¹ chʻa⁴-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: chū chà-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chu chah.tzy
    • Palladius: чу чацзы (ču čaczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰä⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ceot¹ caa³ zi²
    • Yale: chēut cha jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoet⁷ tsaa³ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: cêd¹ ca³ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵt̚⁵ t͡sʰaː³³ t͡siː³⁵/

Verb

出⫽岔子 (verb-object)

1. to go wrong; to make mistakes

   • 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.