不語

See also: 不语

Chinese

		not; no	speech; language; dialect speech; language; dialect; tell to
trad. (不語)		不	語
simp. (不语)		不	语

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùyǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄩˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ jyu⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-gú / put-gír / put-gí
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷peq-gniu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùyǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄩˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùyǔ
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-yü³
  - Yale: bù-yǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buyeu
  - Palladius: буюй (bujuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
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    不予
    不語 / 不语
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ jyu⁵
  - Yale: bāt yúh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ jy⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ yu⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ jyː¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-gú
  - Tâi-lô: put-gú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putguo
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ ɡu⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-gír
  - Tâi-lô: put-gír
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡɯ⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-gí
  - Tâi-lô: put-gí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putgie
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ ɡi⁵³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷peq-gniu
  - MiniDict: peh^入 nyu
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴peq-nyy
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /pəʔ³³ n̠ʲy⁴⁴/

Verb

不語

(literary) to remain silent; to say nothing

Derived terms

不言不語 / 不言不语 (bùyánbùyǔ)
低頭不語 / 低头不语 (dītóubùyǔ)
觀棋不語真君子 / 观棋不语真君子
食不言，寢不語 / 食不言，寝不语 (shí bù yán, qǐn bù yǔ)
默默不語 / 默默不语

Japanese

Kanji in this term
不	語
ふ Grade: 4	ご Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ふご [fúꜜgò] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ɡo̞]

Noun

不(ふ)語(ご) • (fugo)

silence; not saying anything
Synonym: 不言(ふげん) (fugen)

Derived terms

不言不語(ふげんふご) (fugenfugo)
不語仙(ふごせん) (fugosen)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN