不少

不少

Chinese

		not; no	young; few; little young; few; little; lack
simp. and trad. (不少)		不	少

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùshǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄕㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ siu²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): put-séu
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): put-siáu / put-chió

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bug⁴ zio²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùshǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄕㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùshǎo
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-shao³
    • Yale: bù-shǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bushao
    • Palladius: бушао (bušao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ ʂɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ siu²
    • Yale: bāt síu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ siu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ xiu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ siːu̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: put-séu
    • Hakka Romanization System: bud` seu`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bud⁵ seu³
    • Sinological IPA: /put̚² seu̯³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-siáu
    • Tâi-lô: put-siáu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putsiao
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɕiau⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ ɕiau⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ ɕiau⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ ɕiau⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-chió
    • Tâi-lô: put-tsió
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putcioir
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡ɕio⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡ɕio⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ t͡ɕio⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bug⁴ zio²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: puk tsió
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puk̚²⁻⁴ t͡sio⁵²⁻²¹/

Adjective

不少

1. many; much; a lot

   由於上季度的利潤豐厚，公司為她發了不少獎金。 [MSC, trad.]
   由于上季度的利润丰厚，公司为她发了不少奖金。 [MSC, simp.]

   Yóuyú shàng jìdù de lìrùn fēnghòu, gōngsī wèi tā fā le bùshǎo jiǎngjīn. [Pinyin]

   Because of the huge profit last quarter, the company gave her a lot of bonuses.

Synonyms

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Synonyms of 不少

一系列 (yīxìliè) 不老少 (bùlǎoshǎo) (colloquial) 儦儦 (biāobiāo) (literary) 千千 (qiānqiān) (literary) 千百 (qiānbǎi) (literary) 好些 (hǎoxiē) 好多 (hǎoduō) 孔多 (kǒngduō) (literary) 延延 (yányán) (literary) 很多 (hěnduō) 浩瀚 (hàohàn) 浩繁 (hàofán)

百 (bǎi) 繁多 (fánduō) 萌生 (méngshēng) (literary) 幾多 (Cantonese) 廣／广 (guǎng) (literary, or in compounds) 廣大／广大 (guǎngdà) (of people) 眾多／众多 (zhòngduō) 許多／许多 (xǔduō) 諸多／诸多 (zhūduō) 颮颮／飑飑 (pòpò) (literary) 𣍐少／𫧃少 (Min Nan)