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
• Southern Min

  (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–Hong Kong)⁺
    • 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/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-siáu
    • Tâi-lô: put-siáu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putsiao
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ siau⁵³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ siau⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ siau⁴¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ siau⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-chió
    • Tâi-lô: put-tsió
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putcioir
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡sio⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ t͡sio⁵³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡sio⁵³/
  • (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

• 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)
• 幾多／几多 (gei² do¹) (Cantonese)
• 廣／广 (literary, or in compounds)
• 廣大／广大 (guǎngdà) (of people)
• 延延 (yányán) (literary)
• 很多 (hěnduō)
• 𣍐少／𫧃少 (Hokkien)
• 浩瀚 (hàohàn)
• 浩繁 (hàofán)
• 百
• 眾多／众多 (zhòngduō)
• 繁多 (fánduō)
• 萌生 (méngshēng) (literary)
• 許多／许多 (xǔduō)
• 諸多／诸多 (zhūduō)
• 颮颮／飑飑 (literary)