喪盡天良

Chinese

		lose (by death); mourning; funeral	to use up; to exhaust; to end to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth)	conscience
trad. (喪盡天良)		喪	盡	天良
simp. (丧尽天良)		丧	尽	天良

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sàngjìntiānliáng

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄤˋ ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄌㄧㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): song³ zeon⁶ tin¹ loeng⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sàngjìntiānliáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄤˋ ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄌㄧㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sàngjìntianliáng
    • Wade–Giles: sang⁴-chin⁴-tʻien¹-liang²
    • Yale: sàng-jìn-tyān-lyáng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sanqjinntianliang
    • Palladius: санцзиньтяньлян (sanczinʹtjanʹljan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕin⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ li̯ɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: song³ zeon⁶ tin¹ loeng⁴
    • Yale: song jeuhn tīn lèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: song³ dzoen⁶ tin¹ loeng⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: song³ zên⁶ tin¹ lêng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɔːŋ³³ t͡sɵn²² tʰiːn⁵⁵ lœːŋ²¹/

Idiom

喪盡天良

1. to be utterly devoid of conscience; to be extremely vicious and evil

   • 這樣一來，一些喪盡天良的資本家，就見利忘義，躍躍欲試。 [MSC, trad.]
     这样一来，一些丧尽天良的资本家，就见利忘义，跃跃欲试。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1940, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《新民主主義論》 (On New Democracy), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Zhèyàngyīlái, yīxiē sàngjìntiānliáng de zīběnjiā, jiù jiànlìwàngyì, yuèyuèyùshì. [Pinyin]

     At the prospect of profits, some conscienceless capitalists forget all moral principles and itch to have a go.