不克

Chinese

		not; no	gram; subdue; to restrain gram; subdue; to restrain; to overcome
simp. and trad. (不克)		不	克

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùkè

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ hak¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-khek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùkè [Phonetic: búkè]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùkè
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-kʻo⁴
    • Yale: bù-kè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bukeh
    • Palladius: букэ (bukɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ kʰɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ hak¹
    • Yale: bāt hāk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ hak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ heg¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ hɐk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-khek
    • Tâi-lô: put-khik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putqeg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰiɪk̚³²/

Verb

不克

1. (literary) cannot; to not be able
2. (literary) to be unable to prevail

Derived terms

• 戰無不克／战无不克
• 攻無不克／攻无不克