不見得

不見得

See also: 不见得

Chinese

		not; no	to seem
trad. (不見得)		不	見得
simp. (不见得)		不	见得
Literally: “to not seem to be”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùjiàndé

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ gin³ dak¹
• Min Nan (POJ): put-kiàn-tit / put-kiàn-tek

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bùjiàndé [Phonetic: bújiàndé]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄜˊ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bujiannder
    • IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹ tɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ gin³ dak¹
    • Yale: bāt gin dāk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ gin³ dak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ gin³ deg¹
    • IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ kiːn³³ tɐk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-kiàn-tit
    • Tâi-lô: put-kiàn-tit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putkierndid
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ kiɛn²¹⁻⁵³ tit̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ kiɛn⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tit̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kiɛn²¹⁻⁵³ tit̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-kiàn-tek
    • Tâi-lô: put-kiàn-tik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putkierndeg
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kiɛn²¹⁻⁵³ tiɪk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ kiɛn²¹⁻⁵³ tiɪk̚³²/

Adverb

不見得

1. not necessarily; unlikely to

Synonyms

• (Min Nan) 無拄拄／无拄拄