但定

Chinese

		but; yet; however but; yet; however; only; merely; still	to set; to fix; to determine to set; to fix; to determine; to decide; to stabilize; to order
simp. and trad. (但定)		但	定

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): nā-tiāⁿ

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: dated in Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nā-tiāⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: nā-tiānn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: naxdvia
    • IPA (Taipei): /nã³³⁻¹¹ tiã³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /nã³³⁻²¹ tiã³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /nã²²⁻²¹ tiã²²/

Particle

但定

1. (Hokkien, at the end of a phrase) just; simply; that's all; nothing more; is all

   • 若是我，我m̄知，只有知「感激」kap「歡喜」nā-tiāⁿ。 [Hokkien, trad.]
     若是我，我m̄知，只有知「感激」kap「欢喜」nā-tiāⁿ。 [Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 1959, 高俊明, Góa M̄-chai

     Nā-sī góa, góa m̄ chai, chí-ū chai “kám-kek” kap “hoaⁿ-hí” nā-tiāⁿ. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     If I were them, I wouldn't know anything but just appreciation and happiness.

Synonyms

• 云爾 (yún'ěr) (literary)
• 定定 (Hakka)
• 爾爾／尔尔 (niā-niā) (Hokkien)
• 罷了／罢了
• 而已 (éryǐ)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 而已 (“(sentence-final particle) just; simply”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		而已, 云爾
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		而已, 罷了
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	罷了
	Taiwan	而已
	Malaysia	罷了
	Singapore	而已
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	罷了
Cantonese	Guangzhou	啫, 咋, 之嘛
	Hong Kong	啫, 咋, 之嘛
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	啫, 之嘛
	Taishan	之嘛, 咋
	Kaiping (Chikan)	之嘛, 逸, 咿
	Enping (Niujiang)	之嘛, 咋
	Singapore (Guangfu)	啫
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	定定
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	定定
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	定定, 定
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	忒等
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	定定
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	定
Southern Min	Xiamen	爾爾, 爾
	Quanzhou	爾爾, 爾
	Zhangzhou	爾爾, 爾
	Tainan	爾爾
	Penang (Hokkien)	爾
	Singapore (Hokkien)	爾, 爾爾
	Jieyang	定