破銅爛鐵

See also: 破铜烂铁

Chinese

		to break; to split; broken to break; to split; broken; damaged; worn out	copper	rotten; decayed; well-cooked rotten; decayed; well-cooked; mushy; broken; bad; to decay; completely	iron
trad. (破銅爛鐵)		破	銅	爛	鐵
simp. (破铜烂铁)		破	铜	烂	铁
Literally: “broken copper and broken iron”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pòtónglàntiě

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄛˋ ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄌㄢˋ ㄊㄧㄝˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): po³ tung⁴ laan⁶ tit³
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵phu-don-le-thiq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pòtónglàntiě
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄛˋ ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄌㄢˋ ㄊㄧㄝˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pòtónglàntiě
    • Wade–Giles: pʻo⁴-tʻung²-lan⁴-tʻieh³
    • Yale: pwò-túng-làn-tyě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pohtornglanntiee
    • Palladius: потунланьте (potunlanʹte)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu̯ɔ⁵¹ tʰʊŋ³⁵ län⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: po³ tung⁴ laan⁶ tit³
    • Yale: po tùhng laahn tit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: po³ tung⁴ laan⁶ tit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: po³ tung⁴ lan⁶ tid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔː³³ tʰʊŋ²¹ laːn²² tʰiːt̚³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵phu-don-le-thiq
    • MiniDict: phu^去 don le thih
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²phu-don-le-thiq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pʰu³³ doŋ⁵⁵ le³³ tʰiɪʔ²¹/

Noun

破銅爛鐵

1. (idiomatic) metal scrap; useless rusty metal objects
2. (idiomatic, by extension) anything that is broken and useless; junk

   快把這堆破銅爛鐵拿出去處理掉。 [MSC, trad.]
   快把这堆破铜烂铁拿出去处理掉。 [MSC, simp.]

   Kuài bǎ zhè duī pòtónglàntiě ná chūqù chǔlǐ diào. [Pinyin]

   Quickly take this pile of junk out to be disposed of.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 廢銅爛鐵 (“metal scrap”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		廢銅爛鐵, 破銅爛鐵
Mandarin	Taiwan	破銅爛鐵
	Luoyang	破銅爛鐵
Cantonese	Guangzhou	爛銅爛鐵
	Hong Kong	爛銅爛鐵
Gan	Nanchang	破銅爛鐵
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	壞銅壞鐵
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	壞銅壞鐵
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	壞銅壞鐵
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	壞銅壞鐵
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	壞銅壞鐵
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	壞銅壞鐵
Southern Min	Xiamen	歹銅舊錫, 臭銅爛鐵
	Taipei	歹銅舊錫
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	歹銅舊錫
	Kaohsiung	歹銅舊錫
	Yilan	歹銅舊錫
	Changhua (Lukang)	歹銅舊錫
	Taichung	歹銅舊錫
	Tainan	歹銅舊錫
	Hsinchu	歹銅舊錫
	Kinmen	歹銅舊錫
	Penghu (Magong)	歹銅舊錫
Wu	Shanghai	破銅爛鐵, 廢銅爛鐵
	Hangzhou	廢銅爛鐵