空城計

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Chinese

		abandoned city; empty city	to calculate; to compute; to count to calculate; to compute; to count; reckon; ruse; to plan
trad. (空城計)		空城	計
simp. (空城计)		空城	计

Wikipedia has articles on:

空城計 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
空城計 (Cantonese)

Etymology

Stratagem #32 in the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kōngchéngjì

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄥㄔㄥˊ ㄐㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hung¹ sing⁴ gai³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khang-siâⁿ-kè / khong-chhîn-kiè

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: kōngchéngjì
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥㄔㄥˊ ㄐㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: kongchéngjì
  - Wade–Giles: kʻung¹-chʻêng²-chi⁴
  - Yale: kūng-chéng-jì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kongcherngjih
  - Palladius: кунчэнцзи (kunčɛnczi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵ t͡ɕi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hung¹ sing⁴ gai³
  - Yale: hūng sìhng gai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹ sing⁴ gai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: hung¹ xing⁴ gei³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ sɪŋ²¹ kɐi̯³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khang-siâⁿ-kè
  - Tâi-lô: khang-siânn-kè
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qangsvia'kex
  - IPA (Taipei): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ siã²⁴⁻¹¹ ke¹¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² siã¹³⁻²² ke²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰaŋ³³ siã²⁴⁻²² ke⁴¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ siã²³⁻³³ ke²¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² siã²⁴⁻²² ke²¹/
- (Hokkien: Longyan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khong-chhîn-kiè
  - Tâi-lô: khong-tshîn-kiè
  - IPA (Longyan): /kʰoŋ³³⁴ t͡sʰin¹¹ kie²¹³/

Noun

空城計

Empty Fort Strategy (strategy to deceive the enemy into thinking that an empty location is full of traps and ambushes)
(figurative) hungry stomach

Derived terms

唱空城計 / 唱空城计 (chàng kōngchéngjì)
演空城計 / 演空城计

References

郭启熹 , editor (2016), “空城计”, in 龙岩方言词典 LONGYAN FANGYAN CIDIAN [Dictionary of Longyan dialect] (overall work in Min Nan and Mandarin), Xiamen: 鷺江出版社 , →ISBN, page 487.

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

空城計

Kanji in this term
空	城	計
くう Grade: 1	じょう Grade: 4	けい Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Noun

空(くう)城(じょう)計(けい) • (kūjōkei)

Empty Fort Strategy (strategy to deceive the enemy into thinking that an empty location is full of traps and ambushes)

Korean

Hanja in this term
空	城	計

Noun

空城計 • (gongseonggye) (hangeul 공성계)

hanja form^? of 공성계 (“Empty Fort Strategy”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
空	城	計

Noun

空城計

chữ Hán form of không thành kế (“Empty Fort Strategy”).

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