{"path":"/entry/114161","title":"鸡犬不宁 / 雞犬不寧 (jī quǎn bù níng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"鸡犬不宁 / 雞犬不寧 (jī quǎn bù níng): literally not even the chickens and dogs are left undisturbed (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":114161,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["鸡犬不宁"],"TRADITIONAL":["雞犬不寧"]}},"phonetic":"jī quǎn bù níng","phoneticKey":"ji1 quan3 bu4 ning2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally not even the chickens and dogs are left undisturbed ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively great commotion","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"pandemonium","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"(even) the chickens and dogs are unsettled","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From Liu Zongyuan's famous prose Discourse of the Snake Catcher:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Note that in many chengyu, 狗 (gǒu) is often substituted by a less derogatory and seemingly more formal synonym 犬 (quǎn).","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"悍吏之吾乡，叫嚣乎东西，隳突乎南北，哗然而骇者，虽鸡狗不得宁焉。","traditional":"悍吏之吾鄉，叫囂乎東西，隳突乎南北，譁然而駭者，雖雞狗不得寧焉。"},"phonetic":"Hàn lì zhī wú xiāng, jiàoxiāo hū dōngxī, huītū hū nánběi, huárán ér hài zhě, suī jī gǒu bù dé níng yān.","english":"When those fierce government tax-collectors come, they snarl and harry wherever they reach, startling the village and upsetting the domestic animals like dogs and fowls.","ref":"c. 805~815, 柳宗元,《捕蛇者説》, translated into English as Catching Snakes by H. A. Giles"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}