不肖
Appearance
Chinese
[edit]| not; no | similar; resembling; to resemble similar; resembling; to resemble; to be like | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (不肖) | 不 | 肖 | |
| simp. #(不肖) | 不 | 肖 | |
| Literally: “unlike (one's parents)”. | |||
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): bat1 ciu3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): put-seu
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-siàu
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
- Hanyu Pinyin: bùxiào [Phonetic: búxiào]
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧㄠˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: bùsiào
- Wade–Giles: pu4-hsiao4
- Yale: bù-syàu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bushiaw
- Palladius: бусяо (busjao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
- Homophones:
不孝
不肖
- (Standard Chinese)
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: bat1 ciu3
- Yale: bāt chiu
- Cantonese Pinyin: bat7 tsiu3
- Guangdong Romanization: bed1 qiu3
- Sinological IPA (key): /pɐt̚⁵ t͡sʰiːu̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: put-seu
- Hakka Romanization System: budˋ seu
- Hagfa Pinyim: bud5 seu4
- Sinological IPA: /put̚² seu̯⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Middle Chinese: pjuw|pjuwX|pjut sjewH
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*pə [s]ew|[s]ew-s/
- (Zhengzhang): /*pɯ|pɯʔ|pɯ' slew|slews/
Adjective
[edit]不肖
- (of a person) unworthy; unseemly; unpromising; dishonourable; of poor moral character
- (literary, of a son) unlike one's father
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]不肖
- unworthy person
- 親臣進而故人退,不肖用事而賢良伏,無功貴而勞苦賤,如是則下怨。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: Han Feizi, circa 2nd century BCE
- Qīnchén jìn ér gùrén tuì, bùxiào yòngshì ér xiánliáng fú, wúgōng guì ér láokǔ jiàn, rúshì zé xià yuàn. [Pinyin]
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
亲臣进而故人退,不肖用事而贤良伏,无功贵而劳苦贱,如是则下怨。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Pronoun
[edit]不肖
Descendants
[edit]Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 不 | 肖 |
| ふ Grade: 4 |
しょう Grade: S |
| on'yomi | |
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]不肖 • (fushō) ←ふせう (fuseu)?-na (adnominal 不肖な (fushō na), adverbial 不肖に (fushō ni))
Inflection
[edit]| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 不肖だろ | ふしょうだろ | fushō daro |
| Continuative (連用形) | 不肖で | ふしょうで | fushō de |
| Terminal (終止形) | 不肖だ | ふしょうだ | fushō da |
| Attributive (連体形) | 不肖な | ふしょうな | fushō na |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 不肖なら | ふしょうなら | fushō nara |
| Imperative (命令形) | 不肖であれ | ふしょうであれ | fushō de are |
| Key constructions | |||
| Informal negative | 不肖ではない 不肖じゃない |
ふしょうではない ふしょうじゃない |
fushō de wa nai fushō ja nai |
| Informal past | 不肖だった | ふしょうだった | fushō datta |
| Informal negative past | 不肖ではなかった 不肖じゃなかった |
ふしょうではなかった ふしょうじゃなかった |
fushō de wa nakatta fushō ja nakatta |
| Formal | 不肖です | ふしょうです | fushō desu |
| Formal negative | 不肖ではありません 不肖じゃありません |
ふしょうではありません ふしょうじゃありません |
fushō de wa arimasen fushō ja arimasen |
| Formal past | 不肖でした | ふしょうでした | fushō deshita |
| Formal negative past | 不肖ではありませんでした 不肖じゃありませんでした |
ふしょうではありませんでした ふしょうじゃありませんでした |
fushō de wa arimasen deshita fushō ja arimasen deshita |
| Conjunctive | 不肖で | ふしょうで | fushō de |
| Conditional | 不肖なら(ば) | ふしょうなら(ば) | fushō nara (ba) |
| Provisional | 不肖だったら | ふしょうだったら | fushō dattara |
| Volitional | 不肖だろう | ふしょうだろう | fushō darō |
| Adverbial | 不肖に | ふしょうに | fushō ni |
| Degree | 不肖さ | ふしょうさ | fushōsa |
| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irrealis (未然形) | 不肖なら | ふせうなら | fuseunara |
| Continuative (連用形) | 不肖に[1] 不肖なり[2] |
ふせうに ふせうなり |
fuseuni fuseunari |
| Terminal (終止形) | 不肖なり | ふせうなり | fuseunari |
| Attributive (連体形) | 不肖なる | ふせうなる | fuseunaru |
| Realis (已然形) | 不肖なれ | ふせうなれ | fuseunare |
| Imperative (命令形) | 不肖なれ | ふせうなれ | fuseunare |
| Key constructions | |||
| Negative | 不肖ならず | ふせうならず | fuseunarazu |
| Contrasting conjunction | 不肖なれど | ふせうなれど | fuseunaredo |
| Causal conjunction | 不肖なれば | ふせうなれば | fuseunareba |
| Conditional conjunction | 不肖ならば | ふせうならば | fuseunaraba |
| Past tense (firsthand knowledge) | 不肖なりき | ふせうなりき | fuseunariki |
| Past tense (secondhand knowledge) | 不肖なりけり | ふせうなりけり | fuseunarikeri |
| Adverbial | 不肖に | ふせうに | fuseuni |
[1]Without auxiliary verb.
[2]With auxiliary verb.
Noun
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]References
[edit]- “不肖”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026
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