五馬分屍

Chinese

		five	horse; surname	to cut a corpse into pieces; to split or dismember a corpse
trad. (五馬分屍)		五	馬	分屍
simp. (五马分尸)		五	马	分尸

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wǔmǎfēnshī

(Zhuyin): ㄨˇ ㄇㄚˇ ㄈㄣㄕ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ng⁵ maa⁵ fan¹ si¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wǔmǎfēnshī [Phonetic: wúmǎfēnshī]
  - Zhuyin: ㄨˇ ㄇㄚˇ ㄈㄣㄕ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wǔmǎfenshih
  - Wade–Giles: wu³-ma³-fên¹-shih¹
  - Yale: wǔ-mǎ-fēn-shr̄
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuumaafenshy
  - Palladius: умафэньши (umafɛnʹši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mä²¹⁴⁻²¹ fən⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ng⁵ maa⁵ fan¹ si¹
  - Yale: ńgh máh fān sī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ng⁵ maa⁵ fan¹ si¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ng⁵ ma⁵ fen¹ xi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋ̍¹³ maː¹³ fɐn⁵⁵ siː⁵⁵/

Idiom

五馬分屍

(historical) to dismember a body by having five horses pull the limbs and head
(figurative) to sentence someone capital punishment; to execute
(figurative) to split something up into small fragments

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