非死不可

Chinese

		(be) not; wrong; blame (be) not; wrong; blame; Africa	to die; impassable; uncrossable to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid	cannot; should not; must not
trad. (非死不可)		非	死	不可
simp. #(非死不可)		非	死	不可
Literally: “must die”.

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of English Facebook.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Fēisǐbùkě

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟ ㄙˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Fēisǐbùkě
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄟ ㄙˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Feisǐhbùkě
    • Wade–Giles: Fei¹-ssŭ³-pu⁴-kʻo³
    • Yale: Fēi-sž-bù-kě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Feisyybukee
    • Palladius: Фэйсыбукэ (Fɛjsybukɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵⁵ sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ pu⁵¹ kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Proper noun

非死不可

1. (colloquial, humorous, slang) Facebook

Synonyms

• 臉書／脸书 (Liǎnshū), 面書／面书 (Miànshū), 臉譜／脸谱 (liǎnpǔ)
• (Cantonese) 飛卜／飞卜, 非時卜／非时卜, 飛時卜／飞时卜, 非士卜, 飛士卜／飞士卜, 非屎卜, 飛屎卜／飞屎卜
• (Hokkien) 面冊／面册

See also

• 非……不可 (fēi ... bùkě)
• 死 (sǐ)