不擇手段
Chinese
| not; no | pick over; to select; to choose pick over; to select; to choose; to pick |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (不擇手段) | 不 | 擇 | 手段 | |
| simp. (不择手段) | 不 | 择 | 手段 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Pinyin): bùzéshǒuduàn
- (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄗㄜˊ ㄕㄡˇ ㄉㄨㄢˋ
- Cantonese (Jyutping): bat1 zaak6 sau2 dyun6
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-te̍k-chhiú-tōaⁿ
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: bùzéshǒuduàn
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄗㄜˊ ㄕㄡˇ ㄉㄨㄢˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: bùzéshǒuduàn
- Wade–Giles: pu4-tsê2-shou3-tuan4
- Yale: bù-dzé-shǒu-dwàn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: butzershoouduann
- Palladius: буцзэшоудуань (buczɛšouduanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pu⁵¹ t͡sɤ³⁵ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tu̯än⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: bat1 zaak6 sau2 dyun6
- Yale: bāt jaahk sáu dyuhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: bat7 dzaak9 sau2 dyn6
- Guangdong Romanization: bed1 zag6 seo2 dün6
- Sinological IPA (key): /pɐt̚⁵ t͡saːk̚² sɐu̯³⁵ tyːn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-te̍k-chhiú-tōaⁿ
- Tâi-lô: put-ti̍k-tshiú-tuānn
- Phofsit Daibuun: putdegchiw'dvoa
- IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ tiɪk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tuã³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ tiɪk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sʰiu⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tuã³³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ tiɪk̚⁴⁻³² t͡sʰiu⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tuã²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
Idiom
不擇手段
- (derogatory) to take any measures to do something; to stop at nothing; by hook or by crook; unscrupulously
Derived terms
- 只要目的正當，可以不擇手段 / 只要目的正当，可以不择手段 (zhǐyào mùdì zhèngdàng, kěyǐ bùzéshǒuduàn)