十惡不赦

Chinese

		Ten Abominations	not; no	to pardon (a convict)
trad. (十惡不赦)		十惡	不	赦
simp. (十恶不赦)		十恶	不	赦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shí'èbùshè

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄜˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sap⁶ ok³ bat¹ se³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shí'èbùshè [Phonetic: shí'èbúshè]
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄜˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shíh-èbùshè
    • Wade–Giles: shih²-o⁴-pu⁴-shê⁴
    • Yale: shŕ-è-bù-shè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyrehbusheh
    • Palladius: шиэбушэ (šiebušɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ ˀɤ⁵¹ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ʂɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sap⁶ ok³ bat¹ se³
    • Yale: sahp ok bāt se
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sap⁹ ok⁸ bat⁷ se³
    • Guangdong Romanization: seb⁶ og³ bed¹ sé³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐp̚² ɔːk̚³ pɐt̚⁵ sɛː³³/

Idiom

十惡不赦

1. (historical) ten kinds of crimes that could not be pardoned
2. to be evil to the extreme and beyond redemption; so evil that one cannot be forgiven or pardoned