不遂

Chinese

		not; no	forthwith
trad. (不遂)		不	遂
simp. #(不遂)		不	遂

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùsuì, bùsuí

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄙㄨㄟˋ, ㄅㄨˋ ㄙㄨㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ seoi⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-sūi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùsuì [Phonetic: búsuì]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄙㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùsuèi
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-sui⁴
    • Yale: bù-swèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: busuey
    • Palladius: бусуй (busuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, common variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùsuí
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄙㄨㄟˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùsuéi
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-sui²
    • Yale: bù-swéi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buswei
    • Palladius: бусуй (busuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ su̯eɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ seoi⁶
    • Yale: bāt seuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ soey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ sêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ sɵy̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-sūi
    • Tâi-lô: put-suī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putsui
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ sui²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ sui⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ sui²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ sui³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ sui³³/

Verb

不遂

1. (literary) to fail; to fail to materialise
2. (literary) to not get one's way; to go contrary to one's wishes

Derived terms

• 不遂心
• 不遂心懷／不遂心怀
• 不遂意
• 半身不遂
• 天年不遂