不必

Chinese

		not; no	certainly; must; will certainly; must; will; necessarily
simp. and trad. (不必)		不	必

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùbì

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ bit¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-pit

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùbì [Phonetic: búbì]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùbì
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-pi⁴
    • Yale: bù-bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bubih
    • Palladius: буби (bubi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ pi⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ bit¹
    • Yale: bāt bīt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ bit⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ bid¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ piːt̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-pit
    • Tâi-lô: put-pit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putpid
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ pit̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ pit̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/

Adverb

(deprecated template usage) 不必

1. no need to; not necessary to; don't have to
2. not necessarily

Synonyms

• (no need to): 無須／无须 (wúxū), (Min Nan) 毋免
• (not necessarily):

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• 不一定 (bùyīdìng)
• 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)

 

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