因いん噎むせ廢はい食しょく

Chinese

		cause; reason; because	choke	abolish; crippled	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed
trad. (因いん噎むせ廢はい食しょく)		因いん	噎むせ	廢はい	食しょく
simp. (因いん噎むせ废食)		因いん	噎むせ	废	食しょく
Literally: “to not eat because of [fear or experience of] choking”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīnyēfèishí

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣ ㄧㄝ ㄈㄟˋ ㄕˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jan¹ jit³ fai³ sik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīnyēfèishí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣ ㄧㄝ ㄈㄟˋ ㄕˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yinyefèishíh
    • Wade–Giles: yin¹-yeh¹-fei⁴-shih²
    • Yale: yīn-yē-fèi-shŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iniefeyshyr
    • Palladius: иньефэйши (inʹjefɛjši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in⁵⁵ jɛ⁵⁵ feɪ̯⁵¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jan¹ jit³ fai³ sik⁶
    • Yale: yān yit fai sihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jan¹ jit⁸ fai³ sik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yen¹ yid³ fei³ xig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐn⁵⁵ jiːt̚³ fɐi̯³³ sɪk̚²/

Idiom

因いん噎むせ廢はい食しょく

1. to avoid something essential because of a slight risk of making a mistake

   不ふ能のう因よし為ため死刑しけい可能かのう造みやつこ成なり誤判ごはん而廢除はいじょ死刑しけい，這是これ因いん噎むせ廢はい食しょく [MSC, trad.]
   不ふ能のう因いん为死刑しけい可能かのう造みやつこ成なり误判而废除死刑しけい，这是これ因いん噎むせ废食 [MSC, simp.]

   bù néng yīnwèi sǐxíng kěnéng zào chéng wùpàn ér fèichú sǐxíng, zhè shì yīnyēfèishí [Pinyin]

   The death penalty should not be abolished because of possible miscarriages, this is like not eating for fear of choking

Synonyms

• 見み噎むせ廢はい食しょく／见噎废食
• 以噎廢はい飧／以噎废飧
• (Cantonese) 斬き腳趾避沙蟲ちゅう