不但

Chinese

		not; no	but; yet; however but; yet; however; only; merely; still
simp. and trad. (不但)		不	但

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùdàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ daan⁶

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-tān / put-tàn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùdàn [Phonetic: búdàn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùdàn
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-tan⁴
    • Yale: bù-dàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: budann
    • Palladius: будань (budanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ tän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ daan⁶
    • Yale: bāt daahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ daan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ dan⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ taːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-tān
    • Tâi-lô: put-tān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putdan
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ tan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ tan²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ tan³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ tan²²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-tàn
    • Tâi-lô: put-tàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putdaxn
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ tan²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ tan¹¹/

Conjunction

不但

1. not only

   他不但細心，而且體貼。 [MSC, trad.]
   他不但细心，而且体贴。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā bùdàn xìxīn, érqiě tǐtiē. [Pinyin]

   He is not only meticulous, but also caring.

   • 農民不但生產自己需要的農產品，而且生產自己需要的大部分手工業品。 [MSC, trad.]
     农民不但生产自己需要的农产品，而且生产自己需要的大部分手工业品。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1939, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《中國革命和中國共產黨》 (The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Nóngmín bùdàn shēngchǎn zìjǐ xūyào de nóngchǎnpǐn, érqiě shēngchǎn zìjǐ xūyào de dàbùfen shǒugōngyèpǐn. [Pinyin]

     The peasants produced for themselves not only agricultural products but most of the handicraft articles they needed.

Usage notes

Typically followed by a conjunction that denotes [but] also such as 而且 (érqiě), 反而 (fǎn'ér), 也 (yě) or 還／还 (hái).

Synonyms

• 不僅／不仅 (bùjǐn)
• 不光 (bùguāng)
• 不只 (bùzhǐ)
• 不單／不单 (bùdān)
• 不惟 (bùwéi) (literary)
• 不止 (bùzhǐ)
• 不特 (bùtè) (literary)
• 不獨／不独 (bùdú)
• 不直 (bùzhí) (literary)
• 不論／不论 (bùlùn) (literary)
• 伓止 (ēng-cǐ) (Northern Min, Hokkien)
• 勿僅／勿仅 (⁵veq-jjin) (Wu)
• 勿僅僅／勿仅仅 (⁵veq-jjin-jjin) (Wu)
• 勿光 (⁵veq-kuaan) (Wu)
• 唔只 (m⁴ zi²) (Cantonese)
• 唔單／唔单 (Teochew)
• 唔單只／唔单只 (m⁴ daan¹ zi²) (Cantonese, Teochew)
• 唔淨只／唔净只 (m⁴ zing⁶ zi²) (Cantonese)
• 毋但 (Hokkien)
• 豈但／岂但 (qǐdàn) (literary)
• 非但 (fēidàn)
• 非獨／非独 (fēidú)
• 非論／非论 (fēilùn) (literary)