不克

Chinese

		not; no	gram; subdue; to restrain gram; subdue; to restrain; to overcome
simp. and trad. (不克)		不	克

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùkè

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ hak¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-khek

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùkè [Phonetic: búkè]
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùkè
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-kʻo⁴
  - Yale: bù-kè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bukeh
  - Palladius: букэ (bukɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ kʰɤ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ hak¹
  - Yale: bāt hāk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ hak⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ heg¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ hɐk̚⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-khek
  - Tâi-lô: put-khik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putqeg
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰiɪk̚³²/

Verb

不克

(literary) cannot; to not be able
(literary) to be unable to prevail

Derived terms

戰無不克 / 战无不克
攻無不克 / 攻无不克