不濟
Chinese
| not; no | aid; ferry; frugal | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (不濟) | 不 | 濟 | |
| simp. (不济) | 不 | 济 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: bùjì [Phonetic: bújì]
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: bùjì
- Wade–Giles: pu4-chi4
- Yale: bù-jì
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bujih
- Palladius: буцзи (buczi)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡ɕi⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: bat1 zai3
- Yale: bāt jai
- Cantonese Pinyin: bat7 dzai3
- Guangdong Romanization: bed1 zei3
- Sinological IPA (key): /pɐt̚⁵ t͡sɐi̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Changting)
- Changting Pinyin: be2 zi4
- Sinological IPA: /pe²⁴ t͡si⁵⁴/
- (Changting)
Adjective
不濟
- not successful
- of no use
- not enough; insufficient
- not good
- not as good as
Synonyms
- (not good):
- 不善 (bùshàn)
- 不好
- 不妙 (bùmiào)
- 不怎麼樣 / 不怎么样 (bùzěnmeyàng)
- 不腆 (bùtiǎn) (Classical Chinese, self-deprecatory)
- 了丁 (Min Nan)
- 低下 (dīxià)
- 低劣 (dīliè)
- 低路 (Min Nan)
- 劣 (literary, or in compounds)
- 垃圾 (lājī) (colloquial)
- 屎 (Cantonese)
- 差 (chà)
- 差勁 / 差劲 (chàjìn) (colloquial)
- 差氣 / 差气 (Hokkien)
- 拙劣 (zhuōliè)
- 推扳 (Shanghainese)
- 梢跤 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 梢跤軟蹄 / 梢跤软蹄 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 梢蹬 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 欠佳 (qiànjiā)
- 水皮 (seoi2 pei4) (Cantonese)
- 潮 (cháo) (colloquial, of quality or technique)
- 無良 / 无良 (wúliáng) (formal)
- 破 (pò) (colloquial)
- 跤梢 (Xiamen Hokkien)
- 蹩腳 / 蹩脚 (biéjiǎo)
- 鄙劣 (bǐliè) (literary)
Derived terms
References
- 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “不济”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 21.