代庖

Chinese

		substitute; replace; generation substitute; replace; generation; dynasty; geological era; era; age; period	kitchen
simp. and trad. (代庖)		代	庖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàipáo

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄞˋ ㄆㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): doi⁶ paau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàipáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄞˋ ㄆㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàipáo
    • Wade–Giles: tai⁴-pʻao²
    • Yale: dài-páu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: daypaur
    • Palladius: дайпао (dajpao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taɪ̯⁵¹ pʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: doi⁶ paau⁴
    • Yale: doih pàauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: doi⁶ paau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: doi⁶ pao⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɔːi̯²² pʰaːu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dojH baew

Rime
Character	代	庖
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	咍 (41)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	II
Fanqie	徒耐切	薄交切
Baxter	dojH	baew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dʌiH/	/bˠau/
Pan Wuyun	/dəiH/	/bᵚau/
Shao Rongfen	/dɒiH/	/bau/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəjH/	/baɨw/
Li Rong	/dᴀiH/	/bau/
Wang Li	/dɒiH/	/bau/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑ̆iH/	/bʱau/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dài	páo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	doi6	paau4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'ɯːɡs  bruː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	代
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dài
Middle Chinese	‹ dojH ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁək-s/
English	replace
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	代	庖
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	14963	287
Phonetic component	弋	勹
Rime group	代	幽
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	代	庖
Old Chinese	/*l'ɯːɡs/	/*bruː/

Verb

代庖

1. (literary) to do others' job for them; to act in the place of others

   • 菩薩是農民立起來的，到了一定時期農民會用他們自己的雙手丟開這些菩薩，無須旁人過早地代庖丟菩薩。 [MSC, trad.]
     菩萨是农民立起来的，到了一定时期农民会用他们自己的双手丢开这些菩萨，无须旁人过早地代庖丢菩萨。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Púsà shì nóngmín lì qǐlai de, dào le yīdìng shíqī nóngmín huì yòng tāmen zìjǐ de shuāngshǒu diūkāi zhèxiē púsà, wúxū pángrén guòzǎo de dàipáo diū púsà. [Pinyin]

     It is the peasants who made the idols, and when the time comes they will cast the idols aside with their own hands; there is no need for anyone else to do it for them prematurely.

Derived terms

• 尸祝代庖
• 越俎代庖 (yuèzǔdàipáo)