死人冧樓

Chinese

		dead person; corpse
trad. (死人冧樓)		死人	冧樓
simp. (死人冧楼)		死人	冧楼
Literally: “people die and buildings collapse”.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): sei² jan⁴ lam³ lau^4-2

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: sei² jan⁴ lam³ lau^4-2
  - Yale: séi yàhn lam láu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sei² jan⁴ lam³ lau^4-2
  - Guangdong Romanization: séi² yen⁴ lem³ leo²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sei̯³⁵ jɐn²¹ lɐm³³ lɐu̯²¹⁻³⁵/

Idiom

死人冧樓

(Cantonese, figuratively) to have a disaster; to have a catastrophe

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