不容易

Chinese

		not; no	easy; simple; likely easy; simple; likely; liable; prone
simp. and trad. (不容易)		不	容易

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùróngyì

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨㄥˊ ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ jung⁴ ji⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùróngyì
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄨㄥˊ ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùróngyì
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-jung²-i⁴
    • Yale: bù-rúng-yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: burongyih
    • Palladius: бужунъи (bužunʺi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ ʐʊŋ³⁵ i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ jung⁴ ji⁶
    • Yale: bāt yùhng yih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ jung⁴ ji⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ yung⁴ yi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ jʊŋ²¹ jiː²²/

Adjective

不容易

1. difficult; hard; troublesome

   一路走來肯定不容易。 [MSC, trad.]
   一路走来肯定不容易。 [MSC, simp.]

   Yīlù zǒu lái kěndìng bùróngyì. [Pinyin]

   The journey must have been difficult.

2. having a hard time; having a tough time

   你們都挺不容易的。 [MSC, trad.]
   你们都挺不容易的。 [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐmen dōu tǐng bùróngyì de. [Pinyin]

   You are all having a tough time.

Synonyms

• (difficult):

• 勤 (qín) (literary, or in compounds)
• 困難／困难
• 疑難／疑难 (yínán)
• 良苦 (liángkǔ) (literary)
• 艱巨／艰巨 (jiānjù)
• 艱苦／艰苦 (jiānkǔ)
• 艱難／艰难 (jiānnán)
• 苦難／苦难 (kǔnàn)
• 辛勞／辛劳 (xīnláo)
• 辛苦 (xīnkǔ)
• 難／难

 

Derived terms

• 好不容易 (hǎobùróngyì)