甭

See also: 不用

甭 U+752D, 甭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-752D ← 甬 [U+752C] CJK Unified Ideographs 甮 → [U+752E]

Translingual

Han character

甭 (radical 101 用+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一火月手 (MFBQ), four-corner 1022₇, composition ⿱不用)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 756, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21713
• Dae Jaweon: page 1166, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 25, character 11
• Unihan data for U+752D

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Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		甭

From a northern dialectal pronunciation of 不用.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): béng (beng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bung²
• Min Nan (POJ): bàng
• Wu (Wiktionary): pion (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: béng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: pêng²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bengr
    • IPA ^(key): /pɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bung²
    • Yale: búng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bung²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bung²
    • IPA ^(key): /pʊŋ³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bàng
    • Tâi-lô: bàng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: baxng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /baŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /baŋ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /baŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /baŋ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /baŋ²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: pion (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /pi̯ʊŋ³⁴/

Definitions

甭

1. (dialectal Mandarin) Contraction of 不用.
2. (Beijing Mandarin) Indicates a rhetorical question: could it be that...; is it possible that...

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 難道 (“could it be that; is it possible that”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		莫非、豈
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		莫非、豈、難道
Mandarin	Beijing	難道、難不成、甭
	Taiwan	難道、難不成
Cantonese	Guangzhou	唔通
	Hong Kong	唔通
	Taishan	唔成、敢係、唔得旨、毋旨、毋旨估
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	無成、敢講、敢係
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	無成、敢講、敢係
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	無成、敢講、敢係
	Dongshi (Dabu)	無成、敢講、敢會、敢係
	Zhuolan (Raoping)	無成、毋成、敢講、敢係
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	無敢、敢講、敢會、敢係
Min Nan	Xiamen	敢
	Quanzhou	敢
	Zhangzhou	敢
	Taipei	敢、盍

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 甭 – see 棄 (“to abandon; to discard; to reject”). (This character, 甭, is a variant form of 棄.)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

甭 (bằng)

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