不必

Chinese

		not; no	certainly; must; will certainly; must; will; necessarily
simp. and trad. (不必)		不	必

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùbì

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ bit¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-pit

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùbì [Phonetic: búbì]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùbì
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-pi⁴
    • Yale: bù-bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bubih
    • Palladius: буби (bubi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ pi⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 不必 不避

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ bit¹
    • Yale: bāt bīt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ bit⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ bid¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ piːt̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-pit
    • Tâi-lô: put-pit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putpid
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ pit̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ pit̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/

Adverb

不必

1. no need to; not necessary to; don't have to

   多餘的話不必多說。 [MSC, trad.]
   多余的话不必多说。 [MSC, simp.]

   Duōyú de huà bùbì duō shuō. [Pinyin]

   There is no need to say more than what is necessary.

2. not necessarily

Synonyms

• (no need to):

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
	Shuangfeng	不消, 不要

• (not necessarily):

• 不一定 (bùyīdìng)
• 不見得／不见得 (bùjiàndé)
• 唔一定 (m⁴ jat¹ ding⁶) (Cantonese)
• 未嘗／未尝 (wèicháng) (literary)
• 未始 (wèishǐ) (literary)
• 未必 (wèibì)
• 未必然 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 未見得／未见得 (uei⁴ jienn⁴ de⁶) (Xiang)
• 無一定／无一定 (Hokkien)
• 無定著／无定著 (Min Nan)
• 無拄拄／无拄拄 (Hokkien)
• 無的確／无的确 (Min Nan)

 

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
不	必

Adverb

不必

1. chữ Hán form of bất tất.