Chinese Word Detail

Remove Adverts
What is this page showing me?

暴殄天物

bou6 tin5 tin1 mat6

bao4 tian3 tian1 wu4

a reckless waste of food, grain, etc; wantonly ruin products of nature; recklessly waste God's gifts

Level: 4

暴殄天物

暴 buk6 bou6 bo2 bo1 bao4 {pu4} | pu4 {bo2 b - [1] cruel; savage; fierce; atrocious; violent
殄 tin5 tian3 - exterminate
天 tin1 tian1 - sky, heaven
物 mat6 wu4 - thing; substance; stuff

This word was added by bybell on 12th May 2008 and last edited on 17th May 2008

Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/46125/]暴殄天物[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/46125/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">暴殄天物</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 暴殄天物

Search CantoDict (safe search is on)

Please note, CantoDict currently supports searching for Simplified Chinese, but results will be returned in Traditional Chinese.

Hide Written and Spoken Hide Written 國 Hide Spoken粵

This page shows, from top to bottom:

a large version of the word in a traditional script font which you may need to install

: the Cantonese pronunciation of the word in jyutping.

: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin (only if present).

the meaning of the word, typed in by our volunteer editors
guidelines on whether the word can only be used in Spoken Cantonese etc (if nothing is present the word may be used in both Cantonese and Mandarin)
our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font
a list of each of the characters for the word, showing jyutping and meaning (if our dictionary contains that character)

this thread