五 |
wǔ yīn bù quán | tone deaf / unable to sing in tune |
五 |
wǔ | five / 5 |
五 |
wǔ yīn | five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音, 牙音, 舌音, 齿音, 唇音 |
音 |
yīn | sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character) |
不 |
bù | no; not so / (bound form) not; un- |
全 |
Quán | surname Quan |
全 |
quán | all / whole / entire / every / complete |