除非

Chinese

		remove; do away with; wipe out remove; do away with; wipe out; divide; except	(be) not; wrong; blame (be) not; wrong; blame; Africa
trad. (除非)		除	非
simp. ^#(除非)		除	非

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chúfēi

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄨˊ ㄈㄟ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi⁴ fei¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chhù-fî

(Meixian, Guangdong): cu² fi¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tû-hui / tîr-hui / tî-hui

(Teochew, Peng'im): de⁵ hui¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chúfēi
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨˊ ㄈㄟ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chúfei
  - Wade–Giles: chʻu²-fei¹
  - Yale: chú-fēi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwufei
  - Palladius: чуфэй (čufɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu³⁵ feɪ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ceoi⁴ fei¹
  - Yale: chèuih fēi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoey⁴ fei¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêu⁴ féi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵy̯²¹ fei̯⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhù-fî
  - Hakka Romanization System: cu^ˇ fi^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cu² fi¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰu¹¹ fi²⁴/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: cu² fi¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰu¹¹ fi⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tû-hui
  - Tâi-lô: tû-hui
  - Phofsit Daibuun: du'huy
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tu²³⁻³³ hui⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tu²⁴⁻¹¹ hui⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tu²⁴⁻²² hui⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tîr-hui
  - Tâi-lô: tîr-hui
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tɯ²⁴⁻²² hui³³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tî-hui
  - Tâi-lô: tî-hui
  - Phofsit Daibuun: di'huy
  - IPA (Jinjiang, Philippines): /ti²⁴⁻²² hui³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ti¹³⁻²² hui⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: de⁵ hui¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tṳ̂ hui
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɯ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ hui³³/

Conjunction

除非

unless
除非另有說明／除非另有说明 ― chúfēi lìngyǒu shuōmíng ― unless otherwise specified
only if; only when
- 若要人生長美滿，除非世上無離別。 [Ci, trad.]
  若要人生长美满，除非世上无离别。 [Ci, simp.]
  From: 劉克莊, 滿江紅
  Ruò yào rénshēng cháng měimǎn, chúfēi shì shàng wú líbié. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Preposition

除非

except; except for

Synonyms

除了 (chúle)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (除非):

→ Vietnamese: trừ phi (除非)