不若

Chinese

		not; no	to seem; like; as to seem; like; as; if
trad. (不若)		不	若
simp. #(不若)		不	若

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùruò

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ joek⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùruò [Phonetic: búruò]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùruò
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-jo⁴
    • Yale: bù-rwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buruoh
    • Palladius: бужо (bužo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ʐu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ joek⁶
    • Yale: bāt yeuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ joek⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ yêg⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ jœːk̚²/

Verb

不若

1. (literary) not like; not equal to; not as good as; cannot compare to

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 比不上 (“cannot compare with; not as good as”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		不若
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		比不上, 不如, 不比
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	當不倒
Cantonese	Hong Kong	比唔上
Southern Min	Xiamen	𣍐拚, 𣍐拚得, 無拚, 無比止, 較輸
	Quanzhou	無拚, 較輸
	Zhangzhou	𣍐拚, 𣍐拚得, 無拚, 較輸

Japanese

Kanji in this term
不	若
しかず
Grade: 4	Grade: 6
jukujikun

For pronunciation and definitions of 不若 – see the following entry.

【如しかず】 [verb] negative of 如く [verb] to be worse than; be inferior to Alternative spellings 不如, 若かず, 不及, 及かず

(This term, 不若, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)