辦法

See also: 办法

Chinese

	to do; to manage; to handle to do; to manage; to handle; to go about; to run; to set up; to deal with	law; method; way law; method; way; Buddhist teaching; Legalist; France (abbrev.)
trad. (辦法)	辦	法
simp. (办法)	办	法
anagram	法辦／法办
Literally: “way of dealing with something”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): bànfǎ
(Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˋ ㄈㄚˇ
(Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): банфа (banfa, III-I)
Cantonese (Jyutping): baan⁶ faat³
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): phan-fap
(Meixian, Guangdong): pan⁴ fab⁵
Min Dong (BUC): bâing-huák
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): pān-hoat
(Teochew, Peng'im): bain⁷ huab⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bànfǎ → bànfa (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄈㄚˇ → ㄅㄢˋ ˙ㄈㄚ (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bànfå
  - Wade–Giles: pan⁴-fa⁵
  - Yale: bàn-fa
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bann.faa
  - Palladius: баньфа (banʹfa)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pän⁵¹ fä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ → /pän⁵¹ fä¹/
- (Dungan)
  - Cyrillic and Wiktionary: банфа (banfa, III-I)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pæ̃⁴⁴ fa²⁴/
  (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: baan⁶ faat³
  - Yale: baahn faat
  - Cantonese Pinyin: baan⁶ faat⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: ban⁶ fad³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːn²² faːt̚³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phan-fap
  - Hakka Romanization System: pan fab`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: pan⁴ fab⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /pʰan⁵⁵ fap̚²/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: pan⁴ fab⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /pʰan⁵³⁻⁵⁵ fap̚¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: bâing-huák
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɛiŋ²⁴²⁻⁵³ ^(h-)ŋuɑʔ²⁴/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pān-hoat
  - Tâi-lô: pān-huat
  - Phofsit Daibuun: paxnhoad
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /pan⁴¹⁻²² huat̚⁵/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pan³³⁻²¹ huat̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pan³³⁻¹¹ huat̚³²/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Singapore): /pan²²⁻²¹ huat̚³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bain⁷ huab⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pāiⁿ huap
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pãĩ¹¹ huap̚²/

Noun

辦法

means; solution; way (of doing something)
明智的辦法／明智的办法 ― míngzhì de bànfǎ ― smart way
我現在沒有辦法工作。 [MSC, trad.]
我现在没有办法工作。 [MSC, simp.]
Wǒ xiànzài méiyǒu bànfǎ gōngzuò. [Pinyin]
There's no way I can work now.
她開始在想另一個辦法保護她女兒的安全。 [MSC, trad.]
她开始在想另一个办法保护她女儿的安全。 [MSC, simp.]
Tā kāishǐ zài xiǎng lìng yī ge bànfǎ bǎohù tā nǚ'ér de ānquán. [Pinyin]
She had begun thinking of another way to ensure her daughter's safety.
很抱歉，沒有辦法了。 [MSC, trad.]
很抱歉，没有办法了。 [MSC, simp.]
Hěn bàoqiàn, méiyǒu bànfǎ le. [Pinyin]
I'm sorry it can't be helped.
我們沒有辦法，對不起。 [MSC, trad.]
我们没有办法，对不起。 [MSC, simp.]
Wǒmen méiyǒu bànfǎ, duìbùqǐ. [Pinyin]
We don't have a solution, sorry.

Usage notes

In Min Nan, this term tends to be used more often in a positive sense. Whereas in Mandarin, one says 沒辦法／没办法 (méi bànfǎ, “there is no way”), in Min Nan, one would usually say 無法度／无法度 (bô-hoat-tō͘).

Synonyms

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Synonyms of 辦法

主意 (zhǔyì)
作法 (zuòfǎ)
做法 (zuòfǎ)
套套 (tàotao) (colloquial, Jin)
工具 (gōngjù) (figurative)
手段 (shǒuduàn)
措施 (cuòshī)
方式 (fāngshì)
方法 (fāngfǎ)
法子 (fǎzi) (colloquial)
法度 (Min Nan)
渠道 (qúdào)
管道 (guǎndào) (figurative, especially of communication)
行法 (xíngfǎ) (literary)
路子 (lùzi)
道理 (dàolǐ)

道道 (Jin)
卯竅／卯窍 (Sichuan)
對策／对策 (duìcè)
竅門／窍门 (qiàomén)
竅門兒／窍门儿 (qiàoménr)
訣竅／诀窍 (juéqiào)
路徑／路径 (lùjìng)
蹊徑／蹊径 (xījìng) (literary, figurative)
途徑／途径 (tújìng)
進路／进路 (jìnlù)
道術／道术 (dàoshù) (literary)
門徑／门径 (ménjìng)
門路／门路 (ménlù)
門道／门道 (méndao)
門頭／门头 (méntóu) (literary, figurative)
頭路／头路 (tóulù) (colloquial)

Descendants

→ Bouyei: banqfaf
→ Zhuang: banhfap

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this term
辦	法

Noun

辦法

chữ Hán form of biện pháp (“method”).