不善

Chinese

		not; no	good
trad. (不善)		不	善
simp. #(不善)		不	善

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùshàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄕㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ sin⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-siān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùshàn [Phonetic: búshàn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄕㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùshàn
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-shan⁴
    • Yale: bù-shàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bushann
    • Palladius: бушань (bušanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ʂän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ sin⁶
    • Yale: bāt sihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ sin⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ xin⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ siːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-siān
    • Tâi-lô: put-siān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putsien
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ siɛn²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ siɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ siɛn²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ siɛn³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ siɛn³³/

Adjective

不善

1. not good; poor; insufficient
2. (regional) extraordinary; impressive

Synonyms

• (not good):

• 不好
• 不妙 (bùmiào)
• 不怎麼樣／不怎么样 (bùzěnmeyàng)
• 不濟／不济 (bùjì)
• 不腆 (bùtiǎn) (Classical Chinese, self-deprecatory)
• 了丁 (Min Nan)
• 低下 (dīxià)
• 低劣 (dīliè)
• 低路 (Min Nan)
• 劣 (literary, or in compounds)
• 垃圾 (lājī) (colloquial)
• 屎 (Cantonese)
• 差 (chà)
• 差勁／差劲 (chàjìn) (colloquial)
• 差氣／差气 (Hokkien)
• 拙劣 (zhuōliè)
• 推扳 (¹the-pe) (Shanghainese)
• 梢跤 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 梢跤軟蹄／梢跤软蹄 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 梢蹬 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 欠佳 (qiànjiā)
• 水皮 (seoi² pei⁴) (Cantonese)
• 潮 (cháo) (colloquial, of quality or technique)
• 無良／无良 (wúliáng) (formal)
• 破 (pò) (colloquial)
• 跤梢 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 蹩腳／蹩脚 (biéjiǎo)
• 鄙劣 (bǐliè) (literary)

 

Verb

不善

1. to not be good at something

Synonyms

• 不擅長／不擅长 (bù shàncháng)
• 不善於／不善于 (bù shànyú)