總無

Chinese

		always; to assemble; gather always; to assemble; gather; total; overall; head; chief; general; in every case	not have
trad. (總無)		總	無
simp. (总无)		总	无

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chóng-bô

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chóng-bô
    • Tâi-lô: tsóng-bô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zofngbooi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sɔŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bo²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔŋ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bo²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bo¹³/

Adverb

(deprecated template usage) 總無

1. (Southern Min) Indicates a rhetorical question: surely it doesn't mean 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, 莫不是
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		莫非, 豈, 難道, 莫不是
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	難道, 難不成, 甭
	Taiwan	難道, 難不成
Central Plains Mandarin	Xuzhou	難說
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
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	無成, 敢講, 敢係
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	無成, 敢講, 敢係
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	無成, 敢講, 敢會, 敢係
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	無成, 毋成, 敢講, 敢係
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	無敢, 敢講, 敢會, 敢係
Southern Min	Xiamen	敢, 總無
	Quanzhou	敢, 總無, 攏無
	Zhangzhou	敢, 總無
	Tainan	敢
	Manila (Hokkien)	敢
	Shantou	未是
	Jieyang	未是, 敢, 敢是
Wu	Shanghai	只勿
	Shanghai (Chongming)	難算得
Xiang	Changsha	冇過