倒瀉籮蟹

Chinese

		to spill	basket	crab
trad. (倒瀉籮蟹)		倒瀉	籮	蟹
simp. (倒泻箩蟹)		倒泻	箩	蟹
Literally: “(be like) crabs spilled out of the basket”.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): dou² se² lo⁴ haai⁵

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: dou² se² lo⁴ haai⁵
  - Yale: dóu sé lòh háaih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dou² se² lo⁴ haai⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: dou² sé² lo⁴ hai⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯³⁵ sɛː³⁵ lɔː²¹ haːi̯¹³/

Idiom

倒瀉籮蟹 (Cantonese, figurative)

chaotic; messy
to be in a chaotic situation

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