不如

Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùrú

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ jyu⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-jî / put-jû / put-lû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùrú
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùrú
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-ju²
    • Yale: bù-rú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buru
    • Palladius: бужу (bužu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ ʐu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ jyu⁴
    • Yale: bāt yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ yu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ jyː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-jî / put-jû / put-lû
    • Tâi-lô: put-jî / put-jû / put-lû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putjii, putjuu, putluu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ d͡zi²⁴/, /put̚³²⁻⁴ d͡zu²⁴/, /put̚³²⁻⁴ lu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ d͡zi²⁴/, /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ d͡zu²⁴/, /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ lu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ d͡zi¹³/, /put̚³²⁻⁵ d͡zu¹³/, /put̚³²⁻⁵ lu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ d͡zi²⁴/, /put̚³²⁻⁴ d͡zu²⁴/, /put̚³²⁻⁴ lu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ zi²³/, /put̚³²⁻⁴ zu²³/, /put̚³²⁻⁴ lu²³/

Conjunction

1. it would be better to

Verb

不如

1. (deprecated template usage) (Beginning Mandarin) not like; not equal to; not as good as; cannot compare to

   今天不如昨天暖和。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Jīntiān bùrú zuótiān nuǎnhuo. [Pinyin]

   Today is not as warm as yesterday.

Synonyms

• (literary): 不若 (bùruò)

Derived terms

• 求人不如求己 (qiúrén bùrú qiújǐ)
• 百聞不如一見／百闻不如一见 (bǎi wén bùrú yī jiàn)