病入膏肓

Chinese

		ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect	to enter	fat region between the heart and the diaphragm; vital organs; finalized disease fat region between the heart and the diaphragm; vital organs; finalized disease; finalized illness; suffering of the humans and hardships of the popular
trad. (病入膏肓)		病	入	膏肓
simp. ^#(病入膏肓)		病	入	膏肓

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bìngrùgāohuāng

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄖㄨˋ ㄍㄠㄏㄨㄤ
Cantonese (Jyutping): beng⁶ jap⁶ gou¹ fong¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bìngrùgāohuāng
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥˋ ㄖㄨˋ ㄍㄠㄏㄨㄤ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bìngrùgaohuang
  - Wade–Giles: ping⁴-ju⁴-kao¹-huang¹
  - Yale: bìng-rù-gāu-hwāng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: binqruhgauhuang
  - Palladius: бинжугаохуан (binžugaoxuan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʐu⁵¹ kɑʊ̯⁵⁵ xwɑŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: beng⁶ jap⁶ gou¹ fong¹
  - Yale: behng yahp gōu fōng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: beng⁶ jap⁹ gou¹ fong¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: béng⁶ yeb⁶ gou¹ fong¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛːŋ²² jɐp̚² kou̯⁵⁵ fɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Idiom

病入膏肓

to be incurable as one is critically ill
(figuratively) to be hopeless as the situation has gone too bad

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