Chinese characters for Cantonese word ‘fū1 hím2’ (not serious, ‘lack of ambition’)

[Mark Yong]

Does anyone know what the Chinese characters are for the Cantonese word fū1 hím2 (Yale diacritics – fū1 is high level and hím2 is medium-rising)?

My martial arts master used it in the context of lamenting about the mediocre, non-serious, ‘lack of ambition’ way in which some of the students train.

I tried looking up various combinations of characters, and on the basis of definitions and phonology, the best that I could come up with was 『枯慊』, but I am not confident that the characters are correct.

[roddy]

Bit of an guess -敷衍?

[Mark Yong]

Hi, roddy,

Spot on. 詞語“敷衍”的解釋漢典zdic.net Looks like it should be fū1 hín2, not fū1 hím2.

Thank you.

[creamyhorror]

I tried looking up various combinations of characters, and on the basis of definitions and phonology, the best that I could come up with was 『枯慊』, but I am not confident that the characters are correct.

Is 枯慊 even a word? I don't see definitions for it anywhere.

[roddy]

What an excellent guesser I am.

[aifeluna]

As I know,no single word is "him" in mandarin. I cant even spell it.

if you guys talked about 敷衍， it's fu1 yan3.

[roddy]

Yeah, Mark. You should should have specified Cantonese in the title, and then reiterated that in the actual post.

[imron]

As I know,no single word is "him" in mandarin.

他？

[Mark Yong]

aifeluna wrote:

As I know,no single word is "him" in mandarin.

roddy wrote:

Yeah, Mark. You should should have specified Cantonese in the title, and then reiterated that in the actual post.

Errr... folks, I believe I did state Cantonese quite clearly in the post title and my first post (I even mentioned the Yale diacritics in my post to further emphasise that it was Cantonese, not Mandarin). I am acutely aware that in today’s world, unless otherwise stated, Chinese = Mandarin.

Mark Yong wrote:

Does anyone know what the Chinese characters are for the Cantonese word fū1 hím2 (Yale diacritics – fū1 is high level and hím2 is medium-rising)?

[jbradfor]

Umm, mark, it's called irony.

[Hofmann]

Worry not. I was a bit confused at first also.

[imron]

Surely by now you guys should be able to understand roddy's sense of humour

[Mark Yong]

My bad... too much time spent on analysing obscure (and probably-useless) Chinese characters has made me a little thick...

[roddy]

I really should know better by now though. And yet, I don't.