單薄

See also: 单薄

Chinese

		bill; list; form bill; list; form; single; only; sole; surname; chieftain	thin; slight; meagre thin; slight; meagre; small; ungenerous; unkind; mean; frivolous; despise; belittle; to approach; to go near; peppermint
trad. (單薄)		單	薄
simp. (单薄)		单	薄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dānbó

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢ ㄅㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daan¹ bok⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tan-po̍k / tan-po̍h
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹te-boq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dānbó
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢ ㄅㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: danbó
    • Wade–Giles: tan¹-po²
    • Yale: dān-bwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: danbor
    • Palladius: даньбо (danʹbo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵⁵ pu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daan¹ bok⁶
    • Yale: dāan bohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daan¹ bok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dan¹ bog⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːn⁵⁵ pɔːk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tan-po̍k
    • Tâi-lô: tan-po̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: danpok
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tan⁴⁴⁻²² pɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tan⁴⁴⁻²² pɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tan³³ pɔk̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tan-po̍h
    • Tâi-lô: tan-po̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: danpoih
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tan³³ poʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tan⁴⁴⁻²² poʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tan⁴⁴⁻²² poʔ¹²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹te-boq
    • MiniDict: te^平 boh
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹te-boq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /te⁵⁵ boʔ²¹/

Adjective

單薄

1. (of amount of clothing) inadequate; scanty; thin
2. (of a person) thin; weak; frail (either physically or mentally)
3. (of power) feeble; flimsy; insubstantial
4. (of a book) shallow; lacking substance

Synonyms

• (weak):

• 孤單／孤单 (gūdān)
• 孱弱 (chánruò) (literary)
• 弱 (ruò)
• 微弱 (wēiruò)
• 柔弱 (róuruò)
• 瘦弱 (shòuruò)
• 瘦瘠 (shòují)
• 羸弱 (léiruò)
• 脆弱 (cuìruò)
• 荏弱 (Hokkien)
• 薄弱 (bóruò)
• 虛弱／虚弱 (xūruò)
• 虛荏／虚荏 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 虛虧／虚亏 (xūkuī)
• 虧弱／亏弱 (kuīruò)
• 衰弱 (shuāiruò)
• 軟弱／软弱 (ruǎnruò)
• 軟䭕／软𬲕 (Hokkien, Teochew)
• 雌 (cí) (literary)
• 體弱／体弱 (tǐruò)