巴不得

Chinese

		to wait	unable to
simp. and trad. (巴不得)		巴	不得

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bābudé, bābude

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ ˙ㄅㄨ ㄉㄜˊ, ㄅㄚ ˙ㄅㄨ ˙ㄉㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹ bat¹ dak¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pâ-put-tet
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pa-put-tek / pa-put-tit

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bābudé
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ ˙ㄅㄨ ㄉㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: babůdé
    • Wade–Giles: pa¹-pu⁵-tê²
    • Yale: bā-bu-dé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: babuder
    • Palladius: бабудэ (babudɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ b̥u² tɤ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bābude
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ ˙ㄅㄨ ˙ㄉㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: babůde̊
    • Wade–Giles: pa¹-pu⁵-tê⁵
    • Yale: bā-bu-de
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: babu.de
    • Palladius: бабудэ (babudɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ b̥u² d̥ə¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baa¹ bat¹ dak¹
    • Yale: bā bāt dāk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹ bat⁷ dak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: ba¹ bed¹ deg¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵ pɐt̚⁵ tɐk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pâ-put-tet
    • Hakka Romanization System: ba´ bud` ded`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ba¹ bud⁵ ded⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /pa²⁴ put̚² tet̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pa-put-tek
    • Tâi-lô: pa-put-tik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pa'putdeg
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pa⁴⁴⁻²² put̚³²⁻⁵ tiɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pa⁴⁴⁻²² put̚³²⁻⁴ tiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pa-put-tit
    • Tâi-lô: pa-put-tit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pa'putdid
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pa³³ put̚⁵⁻²⁴ tit̚⁵/

Verb

巴不得

1. (colloquial) to be only too anxious (to do something); to eagerly look forward to

   我巴不得你快回家！ [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Wǒ bābude nǐ kuài huíjiā! [Pinyin]

   I can't wait for you to come home!

Synonyms

• 恨不得 (hènbude)
• 恨不能 (hènbunéng)