不用

See also: 甭

Chinese

		not; no	to use
simp. and trad. (不用)		不	用

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùyòng, biòng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄩㄥˋ, ㄅㄩㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ jung⁶
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): bud⁵ yung⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-iōng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùyòng [Phonetic: búyòng]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄩㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùyòng
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-yung⁴
    • Yale: bù-yùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buyonq
    • Palladius: буюн (bujun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, contraction)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄩㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: byòng
    • Wade–Giles: piung⁴
    • Yale: byùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bu
    • Palladius: бюн (bjun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ jung⁶
    • Yale: bāt yuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ jung⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ yung⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ jʊŋ²²/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: bud⁵ yung⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /put̚¹ iʊŋ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-iōng
    • Tâi-lô: put-iōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: put'iong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ iɔŋ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ iɔŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ iɔŋ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ iɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ iɔŋ³³/

Adverb

不用

1. not necessary; don't; no need to

   不用道歉，我不會接受。 [MSC, trad.]
   不用道歉，我不会接受。 [MSC, simp.]

   Bùyòng dàoqiàn, wǒ bùhuì jiēshòu. [Pinyin]

   Don’t apologize. I won’t accept it.

   這是我管的事，你就不用考慮了。 [MSC, trad.]
   这是我管的事，你就不用考虑了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè shì wǒ guǎn de shì, nǐ jiù bùyòng kǎolǜ le. [Pinyin]

   I'm taking care of it — you don't need to worry about it.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 不用 (“need not”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		不必, 無須, 毋庸
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		不必, 毋須, 無須, 無須乎, 不待
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	甭, 不用, 甭用
	Taiwan	不用
	Shenyang	甭
	Malaysia	不用
	Singapore	不用, 不必
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	甭
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	不用
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	不消
	Wuhan	不消, 用不著
	Kunming	不用
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	用不著
	Hefei	不用
Cantonese	Guangzhou	唔使
	Hong Kong	唔使
	Macau	唔使
	Taishan	唔使, 冇使
	Dongguan	唔使
	Yangjiang	無使, 使乜
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	冇使
	Hepu (Shatian)	冇使
	Beihai	冇使
	Beihai (Nankang)	冇使
	Beihai (Yingpan)	冇使
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	冇使
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	冇使
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	冇使
	Singapore (Guangfu)	唔使
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	唔使
Gan	Nanchang	不消, 用不著
Hakka	Meixian	唔使
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	唔使
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	唔使
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	唔使
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	唔使
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	唔使
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	唔使
	Kuching (Hepo)	唔使
Jin	Taiyuan	不用
Northern Min	Jian'ou	伓讓
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	伓使
	Matsu	伓使
	Singapore (Fuqing)	伓使
Southern Min	Xiamen	毋免, 免, 毋使
	Quanzhou	毋免, 免
	Zhangzhou	毋免, 免, 毋使
	Taipei	毋免, 免
	Kaohsiung	毋免, 免
	Penang (Hokkien)	毋免, 免
	Singapore (Hokkien)	毋免, 免
	Manila (Hokkien)	毋免, 免
	Chaozhou	免, 免用
	Shantou	免, 免用
	Shantou (Chenghai)	免
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	免
	Jieyang	免, 免用
	Singapore (Teochew)	免
	Pontianak (Teochew)	免
	Wenchang	無用
	Singapore (Hainanese)	無用
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	唔使
Wu	Shanghai	勿要, 覅, 用勿著, 勿用, 好勿要, 好覅
	Suzhou	用勿著
	Ningbo	甮, 好甮
	Wenzhou	覅用, 否用
Xiang	Changsha	不消
	Shuangfeng	不消, 不要

Derived terms

• 不用客氣／不用客气 (bùyòng kèqì)
• 不用說／不用说 (bùyòngshuō)
• 不用謝／不用谢 (bùyòngxiè)
• 更不用說／更不用说 (gèng bùyòng shuō)
• 無所不用其極／无所不用其极 (wú suǒ bùyòng qí jí)
• 甭 (béng, bíng)

 

See also

• 不免 (bùmiǎn)
• 免不了 (miǎnbùliǎo)
• 難免／难免 (nánmiǎn)
• 未免 (wèimiǎn)
• 別／别 (bié)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
不	用
ふ Grade: 4	よう Grade: 2
on'yomi

Etymology

不 (“non-”) +‎ 用 (“use”)

For pronunciation and definitions of 不用 – see the following entry.

【不要ふよう】 [adjective] unnecessary [adjective] useless [adjective] unused [noun] being unnecessary [noun] uselessness [noun] being unused

(This term, 不用, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Derived terms

• 不用器官
• 不用品

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.