不待

Chinese edit

		not; no	wait; treat; deal with wait; treat; deal with; need; about; intending to do something; stay; delay
trad. (不待)		不	待
simp. ^#(不待)		不	待

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùdài

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄞˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùdài [Phonetic: búdài]
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùdài
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-tai⁴
  - Yale: bù-dài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buday
  - Palladius: будай (budaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ taɪ̯⁵¹/

Adverb edit

不待

(literary) no need to; it goes without (saying)

Synonyms edit

Dialectal synonyms of 不用 (“need not”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		不必, 無須, 毋庸
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		不必, 毋須, 無須, 無須乎, 不待
Mandarin	Beijing	甭, 不用, 甭用
	Taiwan	不用
	Shenyang	甭
	Jinan	甭
	Xi'an	不用
	Wuhan	不消, 用不著
	Chengdu	不消
	Kunming	不用
	Yangzhou	用不著
	Hefei	不用
	Malaysia	不用
	Singapore	不用, 不必
Cantonese	Guangzhou	唔使
	Hong Kong	唔使
	Macau	唔使
	Taishan	唔使, 冇使
	Dongguan	唔使
	Yangjiang	無使, 使乜
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	冇使
	Hepu (Shatian)	冇使
	Beihai	冇使
	Beihai (Nankang)	冇使
	Beihai (Yingpan)	冇使
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	冇使
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	冇使
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	冇使
	Singapore (Guangfu)	唔使
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	唔使
Gan	Nanchang	不消, 用不著
Hakka	Meixian	唔使
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	唔使
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	唔使
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	唔使
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	唔使
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	唔使
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	唔使
	Kuching (Hepo)	唔使
Jin	Taiyuan	不用
Northern Min	Jian'ou	伓讓
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	伓使
	Matsu	伓使
	Singapore (Fuqing)	伓使
Southern Min	Xiamen	毋免, 免, 毋使
	Quanzhou	毋免, 免
	Zhangzhou	毋免, 免, 毋使
	Taipei	毋免, 免
	Kaohsiung	毋免, 免
	Penang (Hokkien)	毋免, 免
	Singapore (Hokkien)	毋免, 免
	Manila (Hokkien)	毋免, 免
	Chaozhou	免, 免用
	Shantou	免, 免用
	Shantou (Chenghai)	免
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	免
	Jieyang	免, 免用
	Singapore (Teochew)	免
	Pontianak (Teochew)	免
	Wenchang	無用
	Singapore (Hainanese)	無用
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	唔使
Wu	Shanghai	勿要, 覅, 用勿著, 勿用, 好勿要, 好覅
	Suzhou	用勿著
	Ningbo	甮, 好甮
	Wenzhou	覅用, 否用
Xiang	Changsha	不消
Xiang	Shuangfeng	不消, 不要

Derived terms edit

不待說／不待说 (bùdàishuō)