孬

孬	U+5B6C, 孬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B6C

← 孫
[U+5B6B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

孭 →
[U+5B6D]

Translingual

Han character

孬 (Kangxi radical 39, 子+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一火女弓木 (MFVND), four-corner 1044₇, composition ⿱不好)

References

KangXi: page 280, character 1

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6989

Dae Jaweon: page 548, character 21

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 8 (in addendum), page 18, character 10

Unihan data for U+5B6C

Chinese

trad.		孬
simp. ^#		孬

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 不 (“no, not”) + 好 (“good, well”).

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “contraction of something with 好?”)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): nāo (nao¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄋㄠ
Cantonese (Jyutping): naau¹, naau⁶, bou²
Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): nao¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: nāo
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄠ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: nao
  - Wade–Giles: nao¹
  - Yale: nāu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nhau
  - Palladius: нао (nao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: naau¹, naau⁶, bou²
  - Yale: nāau, naauh, bóu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: naau¹, naau⁶, bou²
  - Guangdong Romanization: nao¹, nao⁶, bou²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /naːu̯⁵⁵/, /naːu̯²²/, /pou̯³⁵/
Min Nan
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: nao¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: nau
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nau³³/

Definitions

孬

(regional, informal) not good
(regional, informal) cowardly, contemptible

Compounds

孬種／孬种 (nāozhǒng)

Etymology 2

Contraction of 唔好.

Pronunciation

Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): mo²

Min Nan
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: mo²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mó
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mo⁵²/

Definitions

孬

(Teochew, Zhao'an Hokkien) not good; bad; poor
好抑是孬 [Teochew] ― ho² a¹ si⁶ mo² [Peng'im] ― good or not
孬人 [Teochew] ― mo² nang⁵ [Peng'im] ― bad person
孬食死 [Teochew] ― mo² ziah⁸ si² [Peng'im] ― very hard to stomach
(Teochew) rude; unreasonable
(Teochew) cannot; may not
(Teochew) don't

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 壞 (“bad; not good”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		壞
Mandarin	Beijing	壞, 賴
	Taiwan	壞
	Jinan	壞, 孬, 賴
	Xi'an	瞎, 壞
	Wuhan	壞, 拐
	Chengdu	壞
	Yangzhou	壞
	Hefei	壞
	Malaysia	壞
	Singapore	壞
Cantonese	Guangzhou	壞, 弊, 衰
	Hong Kong	壞, 衰
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	衰
	Yangjiang	壞
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	衰
	Singapore (Guangfu)	衰
Gan	Nanchang	壞
Hakka	Meixian	壞
Hakka	Wuhua (Meilin)	衰
Jin	Taiyuan	賴, 壞
Min Bei	Jian'ou	壞, 獰
Min Dong	Fuzhou	呆, 否
Min Nan	Xiamen	歹, 䆀
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	歹
	Quanzhou	歹
	Jinjiang	歹
	Nan'an	歹
	Shishi	歹
	Zhangzhou	䆀
	Zhao'an	䆀, 孬
	Tainan	歹
	Penang (Hokkien)	䆀, 歹
	Singapore (Hokkien)	歹
	Manila (Hokkien)	歹
	Datian	歹
	Chaozhou	孬
	Shantou	孬
	Jieyang	孬, 歹
	Singapore (Teochew)	歹, 孬
	Leizhou	㾀
	Wenchang	㾀
	Haikou	㾀
	Singapore (Hainanese)	㾀
Wu	Shanghai	壞, 恘
	Suzhou	壞, 恘
	Ningbo	歪, 推扳, 嘸做
	Wenzhou	毛
Xiang	Changsha	壞, 拐
Xiang	Shuangfeng	壞, 拐

Dialectal synonyms of 別 (“do not”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		勿, 莫₁, 毋, 無
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		別, 不要, 別要 chiefly Hong Kong
Mandarin	Beijing	別, 別價
	Taiwan	別, 不要
	Harbin	別
	Yantai (Muping)	別
	Jinan	別, 別價, 甭價, 不要
	Luoyang	嫑, 甭, 休
	Wanrong	嫑, 不要
	Xi'an	嫑, 不敢
	Lanzhou	不要
	Xining	嫑
	Ürümqi	嫑
	Wuhan	莫₁, 不
	Chengdu	莫₁, 不要, 嫑
	Guiyang	不要
	Guilin	莫₁
	Liuzhou	莫₁, 莫要
	Xiangtan (Jiangnan Industries Group koine)	莫₁
	Xuzhou	嫑, 休
	Yangzhou	莫₁, 不要
	Nanjing	不要
	Hefei	別, 不要
	Malaysia	不要
	Singapore	不要
Cantonese	Guangzhou	咪, 咪個, 唔好
	Hong Kong	咪, 唔好, 冇
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	唔好
	Macau	唔要
	Foshan (Shunde)	咪
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	咪
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	唔好
	Taishan	唔好
	Kaiping (Chikan)	唔好
	Dongguan	咪, 唔好
	Shaoguan	咪
	Yunfu	咪, 唔好
	Yangjiang	莫₁, 無好
	Xinyi	毛
	Lianjiang	冇
	Nanning	冇要
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	咪
	Singapore (Guangfu)	咪, 唔好
Gan	Nanchang	莫₁
	Lichuan	毋要, 不要
	Pingxiang	不要
Hakka	Meixian	莫₁, 毋愛, 毋好
	Xingning	毋愛
	Huidong (Daling)	毋好
	Shaoguan (Qujiang)	毋好
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	毋好
	Changting	毋要
	Liancheng	毋要
	Ninghua	毋要
	Yudu	毋要, 毋敢
	Ruijin	毋要
	Shicheng	毋要
	Shangyou (Shexi)	毋要
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	毋好
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	毋好
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	毋好
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	毋好
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	毋好
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	毋好
	Hong Kong	毋好
	Sabah (Longchuan)	毋愛
	Senai (Huiyang)	毋好
	Kuching (Hepo)	唔愛
Huizhou	Jixi	不要, 嫑
	Shexian	不要, 嫑
	Tunxi	不要, 嫑
Jin	Taiyuan	不要, 不敢
Jin	Xinzhou	不要, 嫑, 播
Min Bei	Jian'ou	伓敢, 伓讓, 毋
Min Bei	Pucheng (Shibei)	伓敢
Min Dong	Fuzhou	伓通, 毋
	Fuqing	伓通
	Matsu	毋
Min Nan	Xiamen	毋通, 毋愛, 莫₂, 𱰠
	Quanzhou	毋通, 毋愛, 甭
	Zhangzhou	毋通, 莫₂, 甭, 𱰠
	Zhao'an	孬
	Taipei	莫₂, 甭 GT
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	莫去
	Kaohsiung	莫₂
	Yilan	毋通, 莫₂
	Changhua (Lukang)	莫₂
	Tainan	莫₂
	Penang (Hokkien)	莫₂, 毋通, 甭
	Singapore (Hokkien)	莫₂, 毋通, 甭
	Manila (Hokkien)	毋通, 甭
	Pingnan (Shangdu)	別
	Chaozhou	孬, 莫₂
	Shantou	孬, 莫₂
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	莫₂
	Haifeng	莫₂
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	孬
	Penang (Teochew)	莫₂
	Singapore (Teochew)	莫₂, 孬
	Leizhou	無地
	Haikou	無用, 莫₂, 無莫
	Qionghai	無用
	Singapore (Hainanese)	無用
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	冇要
Wu	Shanghai	勿要, 𧟰
	Shanghai (Chongming)	𧟰
	Suzhou	𧟰
	Danyang	弗要, 𫸻
	Hangzhou	嫑
	Hangzhou (Yuhang)	弗要, 消, 𧟰
	Ningbo	莫, 甮
	Wenzhou	𧟰
	Jinhua	𫸻, 弗要, 弗用
Xiang	Changsha	莫₁, 不要
	Loudi	不要, 莫₁
	Shuangfeng	莫₁
	Quanzhou	別
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Compounds

孬人

孬意思

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Chengdu, SP): pie⁴

Mandarin
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: pie⁴
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: pie
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰiɛ²¹³/

Definitions

孬

(Sichuanese) not good; bad; inferior

Vietnamese

Han character

孬: Hán Việt readings: nạo[1], khoái[2]
孬: Nôm readings: nao[3]

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References

Trần (1999).
Nguyễn (1974).
Trần (2004).

[tvctdhv-1] Trần (1999).

[hvttd-2] Nguyễn (1974).

[gdhn-3] Trần (2004).