難說

See also: 难说

Chinese

		disaster; distress; to scold disaster; distress; to scold; difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good	to speak; to say; persuade (politically)
trad. (難說)		難	說
simp. (难说)		难	说

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nánshuō

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ ㄕㄨㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naan⁴ syut³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lân-soeh / lân-seh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nánshuō
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ ㄕㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nánshuo
    • Wade–Giles: nan²-shuo¹
    • Yale: nán-shwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nanshuo
    • Palladius: наньшо (nanʹšo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nän³⁵ ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: naan⁴ syut³
    • Yale: nàahn syut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naan⁴ syt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: nan⁴ xud³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naːn²¹ syːt̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lân-soeh / lân-seh
    • Tâi-lô: lân-sueh / lân-seh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lansoeq, lanseq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lan²⁴⁻²² sueʔ³²/, /lan²⁴⁻²² seʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lan²⁴⁻²² sueʔ⁵/, /lan²⁴⁻²² seʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lan¹³⁻²² sueʔ³²/, /lan¹³⁻²² seʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lan²⁴⁻¹¹ sueʔ³²/, /lan²⁴⁻¹¹ seʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lan²³⁻³³ sueʔ³²/, /lan²³⁻³³ seʔ³²/

Adjective

難說

1. hard to say

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 難說 (“hard to say”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		難說
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	難說, 難講
Cantonese	Guangzhou	難講, 惡講
	Hong Kong	難講
Gan	Nanchang	難話
	Lichuan	難話
Hakka	Meixian	難講
Huizhou	Jixi	難講
Southern Min	Xiamen	惡講, 難講
	Quanzhou	惡說
	Zhangzhou	惡講
	Tainan	惡講, 歹講
	Shantou	惡呾
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	難講
Wu	Shanghai (Chongming)	難話
	Ningbo	難話, 難講
	Jinhua	難講

Adverb

難說

1. (Xuzhou Mandarin, rhetorical question) Indicates a rhetorical question: surely it doesn't mean that...; is it possible that...

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 難道 (“could it be that; is it possible that”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		莫非, 豈, 莫不是
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		莫非, 豈, 難道, 莫不是
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	難道, 難不成, 甭
	Taiwan	難道, 難不成
Central Plains Mandarin	Xuzhou	難說
Cantonese	Guangzhou	唔通
	Hong Kong	唔通
	Taishan	唔成, 敢係, 唔得旨, 毋旨, 毋旨估
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	無成, 敢講, 敢係
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	無成, 敢講, 敢係
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	無成, 敢講, 敢係
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	無成, 敢講, 敢會, 敢係
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	無成, 毋成, 敢講, 敢係
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	無敢, 敢講, 敢會, 敢係
Southern Min	Xiamen	敢, 總無
	Quanzhou	敢, 總無, 攏無
	Zhangzhou	敢, 總無
	Tainan	敢
	Manila (Hokkien)	敢
	Shantou	未是
	Jieyang	未是, 敢, 敢是
Wu	Shanghai	只勿
	Shanghai (Chongming)	難算得
Xiang	Changsha	冇過