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#: {{zh-x|咱 是不是 該 撤 了?|Shouldn't we get going?}} |
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#: {{zh-x|兒子 很 瘦削,說 屁股{gu} 癢,是不是 有 蟲 了?|(My) son's gotten skinny, says his bottom is itchy, has he got worms?}} |
#: {{zh-x|兒子 很 瘦削,說 屁股{gu} 癢,是不是 有 蟲 了?|(My) son's gotten skinny, says his bottom is itchy, has he got worms?}} |
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Revision as of 04:13, 5 March 2020
Chinese
Chinese phrasebook
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be; yes; this | to not be | ||
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simp. and trad. (是不是) |
是 | 不是 | |
alternative forms | 484 internet slang |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˋ → ㄕˋ ˙ㄅㄨ ㄕˋ (toneless variant)
- Tongyong Pinyin: shìhbůshìh
- Wade–Giles: shih4-pu5-shih4
- Yale: shr̀-bu-shr̀
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhbushyh
- Palladius: шибуши (šibuši)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/ → /ʂʐ̩⁵¹ b̥u¹ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: si6 bat1 si6
- Yale: sih bāt sih
- Cantonese Pinyin: si6 bat7 si6
- Guangdong Romanization: xi6 bed1 xi6
- Sinological IPA (key): /siː²² pɐt̚⁵ siː²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Conjunction
- whether or not
Synonyms
- 是否 (shìfǒu)
Interjection
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 是 (shì), 不, 是 (shì).
- isn’t it so? (used as a tag question)
Synonyms
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- Mandarin words containing 不 undergoing tone sandhi
- Mandarin words containing toneless variants
- Chinese lemmas
- Mandarin lemmas
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- Chinese conjunctions
- Mandarin conjunctions
- Cantonese conjunctions
- Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Chinese terms spelled with 是
- Chinese terms spelled with 不
- Mandarin terms with usage examples