不可理喻

不可理喻

Chinese

		cannot; should not; must not	to reason
simp. and trad. (不可理喻)		不可	理喻

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùkělǐyù

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧˇ ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ ho² lei⁵ jyu⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): put-khó-lí-jū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bùkělǐyù [Phonetic: bùkélǐyù]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧˇ ㄩˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bukeeliiyiw
    • IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ ho² lei⁵ jyu⁶
    • Yale: bāt hó léih yuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ ho² lei⁵ jy⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ ho² léi⁵ yu⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ hɔː³⁵ lei̯¹³ jyː²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-khó-lí-jū
    • Tâi-lô: put-khó-lí-jū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putqoylyju
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zu²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ kʰo⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ li⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ d͡zu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zu²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zu³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ li⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zu³³/

Idiom

不可理喻

1. to defy reason; to be unreasonable because of stupidity or stubbornness

   做一件不可理喻的事 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   zuò yī jiàn bùkělǐyù de shì [Pinyin]

   to do something that defies reason

   簡直不可理喻。 / 简直不可理喻。  ―  Jiǎnzhí bùkělǐyù.  ―  It is utterly unreasonable.