# 閉門造車
## Chinese

| | | to close; stop up; shutto close; stop up; shut; obstruct | opening; door; gateopening; door; gate; doorway; gateway; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; (taxonomy) phylum or division | to make; to build; to inventto make; to build; to invent; to manufacture | vehicle on land; car; machinevehicle on land; car; machine; to shape with a lathe |
| trad. (閉門造車) | trad. (閉門造車) | 閉 | 門 | 造 | 車 |
| simp. (闭门造车) | simp. (闭门造车) | 闭 | 门 | 造 | 车 |
| Literally: “build a cart (behind) closed doors”. ||||||

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bìménzàochē, bìménzàojū
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ ㄇㄣˊ ㄗㄠˋ ㄔㄜ, ㄅㄧˋ ㄇㄣˊ ㄗㄠˋ ㄐㄩ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bai$^3$ mun$^4$ zou$^6$ geoi$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pì-bûn-chō-chhia / pì-mn̂g-chō-ki / pì-mn̂g-chō-ku
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bìménzàochē
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄇㄣˊ ㄗㄠˋ ㄔㄜ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bìménzàoche
*** Wade–Giles: pi$^4$-mên$^2$-tsao$^4$-chʻê$^1$
*** Yale: bì-mén-dzàu-chē
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihmentzawche
*** Palladius: бимэньцзаочэ (bimɛnʹczaočɛ)
*** Sinological IPA : /pi⁵¹ mən³⁵ t͡sɑʊ̯⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɤ⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, variant)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bìménzàojū
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄇㄣˊ ㄗㄠˋ ㄐㄩ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bìménzàojyu
*** Wade–Giles: pi$^4$-mên$^2$-tsao$^4$-chü$^1$
*** Yale: bì-mén-dzàu-jyū
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihmentzawjiu
*** Palladius: бимэньцзаоцзюй (bimɛnʹczaoczjuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /pi⁵¹ mən³⁵ t͡sɑʊ̯⁵¹ t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bai$^3$ mun$^4$ zou$^6$ geoi$^1$
*** Yale: bai mùhn jouh gēui
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bai$^3$ mun$^4$ dzou$^6$ goey$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bei$^3$ mun$^4$ zou$^6$ gêu$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɐi̯³³ muːn²¹ t͡sou̯²² kɵy̯⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pì-bûn-chō-chhia
*** Tâi-lô: pì-bûn-tsō-tshia
*** Phofsit Daibuun: pie'bunzoixchiaf
*** IPA (Xiamen): /pi²¹⁻⁵³ bun²⁴⁻²² t͡so²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰia⁴⁴/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pì-mn̂g-chō-ki
*** Tâi-lô: pì-mn̂g-tsō-ki
*** Phofsit Daibuun: piemngzoixky
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pi²¹⁻⁴¹ mŋ̍²³⁻³³ t͡sɤ³³⁻²¹ ki⁴⁴/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pì-mn̂g-chō-ku
*** Tâi-lô: pì-mn̂g-tsō-ku
*** Phofsit Daibuun: piemngzoixkw
*** IPA (Taipei): /pi¹¹⁻⁵³ mŋ̍²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡so³³⁻¹¹ ku⁴⁴/

### Idiom

閉門造車
* do something irrespective of external circumstances; to operate in a vacuum
    From: 2006: 宇争 (Yu Zheng), 中肯提出意见 姚明:请别再闭门造车 (Yao Ming's opinion hits home: "Please don't operate in a vacuum anymore")
    Zài Zhōngguó nánlán bài zài Xīlà duì jiǎoxià hòu, Yáo Míng bìng méiyǒu fāhuǒ, érshì zhōngkěn dì tíchū le zìjǐ de yìjiàn, tā shuō: “Bìménzàochē dǎ guónèi de liánsài yǒngyuǎn dōu shì zhèyàng, bìxū ràng tāmen chūqù dǎ bǐsài, bùshì yīge yīge duì de chūqù, érshì yīge yīge duìyuán de chūqù, shā rù wàimiàn měi yīge duì. Zhèyàng, wǒmen de lánqiú zhěngtǐ shuǐzhǔn cái yǒu kěnéng tíshēng.” [Pinyin]
    After the men's basketball team for China lost at the hands of Greece, Yao Ming did not become angry. Instead, he offered his own opinion, which cut right to the heart of the matter, "It will always be like this if we operate in a vacuum, and are forever only playing local league games in our own country. We need to let them go abroad to compete. It's not about individual teams going abroad. Rather, it's about individual team members going abroad and fighting their way onto the teams of other countries. That's the only way we'll be able raise the level of our basketball as a whole.

#### See also

* 閉門造車，出而合轍／闭门造车，出而合辙