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收兵

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Chinese

		to receive; to accept; to collect to receive; to accept; to collect; in care of (used on address line after name)	soldiers; a force; an army soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike
simp. and trad. (收兵)		收	兵

Etymology

“to attract members of the opposite sex”: Based on 觀音兵／观音兵 (gun¹ jam¹ bing¹).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shōubīng

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄡㄅㄧㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sau¹ bing¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sû-pîn
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siu-peng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shōubīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄡㄅㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shoubing
  - Wade–Giles: shou¹-ping¹
  - Yale: shōu-bīng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoubing
  - Palladius: шоубин (šoubin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵ piŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sau¹ bing¹
  - Yale: sāu bīng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sau¹ bing¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: seo¹ bing¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯⁵⁵ pɪŋ⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sû-pîn
  - Hakka Romanization System: su^ˊ bin^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: su¹ bin¹
  - Sinological IPA: /su²⁴⁻¹¹ pin²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siu-peng
  - Tâi-lô: siu-ping
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siu'pefng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /siu⁴⁴⁻²² piɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /siu³³ piɪŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siu⁴⁴⁻²² piɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /siu⁴⁴⁻³³ piɪŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siu⁴⁴⁻³³ piɪŋ⁴⁴/

Verb

收兵

(literary) to retreat (an army); to withdraw one’s forces
(figurative) to wind up; to conclude; to bring to a close
(Hong Kong, slang, neologism) to attract members of the opposite sex so that they would do anything to pursue you

Synonyms

(to wind up):

了卻／了却 (liǎoquè)
了斷／了断 (liǎoduàn)
了結／了结 (liǎojié)
交代 (jiāodài) (humorous)
告終／告终 (gàozhōng)
完了 (wánliǎo)
完畢／完毕 (wánbì)
完結／完结 (wánjié)
收場／收场 (shōuchǎng)
收束 (shōushù)
煞 (Hokkien)
煞事 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
終／终 (zhōng) (literary, or in compounds)
結／结
結束／结束 (jiéshù)
結絕／结绝 (jiéjué) (literary)
結腳／结脚 (jie² juo²) (Sichuanese)
罷／罢

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