美人計

Chinese

		beautiful woman; beauty; lovely lady beautiful woman; beauty; lovely lady; royal consort	to calculate; to compute; to count to calculate; to compute; to count; reckon; ruse; to plan
trad. (美人計)		美人	計
simp. (美人计)		美人	计

Etymology

Stratagem #31 in the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): měirénjì

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˇ ㄖㄣˊ ㄐㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁵ jan⁴ gai³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: měirénjì
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˇ ㄖㄣˊ ㄐㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: měirénjì
  - Wade–Giles: mei³-jên²-chi⁴
  - Yale: měi-rén-jì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeirenjih
  - Palladius: мэйжэньцзи (mɛjžɛnʹczi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʐən³⁵ t͡ɕi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mei⁵ jan⁴ gai³
  - Yale: méih yàhn gai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁵ jan⁴ gai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: méi⁵ yen⁴ gei³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯¹³ jɐn²¹ kɐi̯³³/

Noun

美人計

honey trap; beauty trap; honeypot; sexual entrapment

Korean

Hanja in this term
美	人	計

Noun

美人計 • (miin'gye) (hangeul 미인계)

Hanja form^? of 미인계 (“honeytrap”).

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