不一定

Chinese

		not; no	fixed; specific; regular fixed; specific; regular; given; particular
simp. and trad. (不一定)		不	一定

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùyīdìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄧ ㄉㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ jat¹ ding⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-it-tēng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùyīdìng [Phonetic: bùyídìng]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄧ ㄉㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùyidìng
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-i¹-ting⁴
    • Yale: bù-yī-dìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buidinq
    • Palladius: буидин (buidin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ 一diŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ jat¹ ding⁶
    • Yale: bāt yāt dihng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ jat⁷ ding⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ yed¹ ding⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ jɐt̚⁵ tɪŋ²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-it-tēng
    • Tâi-lô: put-it-tīng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: put'itdeng
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ it̚³²⁻⁵ tiɪŋ²²/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ it̚³²⁻⁴ tiɪŋ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ it̚⁵⁻²⁴ tiɪŋ⁴¹/

Adverb

不一定

1. may not; not necessarily

Synonyms

• 不必 (bùbì)
• 不見得／不见得 (bùjiàndé)
• 唔一定 (m⁴ jat¹ ding⁶) (Cantonese)
• 未嘗／未尝 (wèicháng) (literary)
• 未始 (wèishǐ) (literary)
• 未必 (wèibì)
• 未必然 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 未見得／未见得 (uei⁴ jienn⁴ de⁶) (Xiang)
• 無一定／无一定 (Hokkien)
• 無定著／无定著 (Min Nan)
• 無拄拄／无拄拄 (Hokkien)
• 無的確／无的确 (Min Nan)