不妙

Chinese

		not; no	clever; wonderful
trad. (不妙)		不	妙
simp. #(不妙)		不	妙

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùmiào

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄇㄧㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ miu⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-biāu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùmiào [Phonetic: búmiào]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄇㄧㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùmiào
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-miao⁴
    • Yale: bù-myàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bumiaw
    • Palladius: бумяо (bumjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ mi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ miu⁶
    • Yale: bāt miuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ miu⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ miu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ miːu̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-biāu
    • Tâi-lô: put-biāu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putbiau
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ biau²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ biau⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ biau²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ biau³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ biau³³/

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) 不妙

1. not good; not going well; not encouraging; anything but reassuring

Synonyms

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• 不善 (bùshàn)
• 不好
• 不怎麼樣／不怎么样 (bùzěnmeyàng)
• 不濟／不济 (bùjì)
• 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 (¹the-pe) (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)