不吝

Chinese edit

		not; no	stingy
simp. and trad. (不吝)		不	吝

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùlìn

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄧㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ leon⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùlìn [Phonetic: búlìn]
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄧㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùlìn
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-lin⁴
  - Yale: bù-lìn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bulinn
  - Palladius: булинь (bulinʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ lin⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ leon⁶
  - Yale: bāt leuhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ loen⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ lên⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ lɵn²²/

Verb edit

不吝

(formal, polite) to not stint; to not grudge; to be generous with
- 德懋懋官，功懋懋賞。用人惟己，改過不吝。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  德懋懋官，功懋懋赏。用人惟己，改过不吝。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Book of Documents, circa 7^th – 4^th centuries BCE
  Dé mào mào guān, gōng mào mào shǎng. Yòngrén wéi jǐ, gǎiguò bùlìn. [Pinyin]
  To great virtue he gave great offices, and to great merit great rewards. He employed others as if [their excellences] were his own; he was not slow to change his errors.

Derived terms edit

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