"不利" meaning in Chinese

See 不利 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ li⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /pɐt̚⁵ lei̯²²/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Sinological-IPA], /put̚² li⁵⁵/ [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sinological-IPA, Sixian], /put̚³²⁻⁴ li²²/ [Hokkien, Min-Nan, Xiamen], /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ li⁴¹/ [Hokkien, Min-Nan, Quanzhou], /put̚³²⁻⁵ li²²/ [Hokkien, Min-Nan, Zhangzhou], /put̚³²⁻⁴ li³³/ [Hokkien, Min-Nan, Taipei], /put̚³²⁻⁴ li³³/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung, Min-Nan], /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ li⁵¹/, /pɐt̚⁵ lei̯²²/, /put̚² li⁵⁵/, /put̚³²⁻⁴ li²²/, /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ li⁴¹/, /put̚³²⁻⁵ li²²/, /put̚³²⁻⁴ li³³/, /put̚³²⁻⁴ li³³/ Chinese transliterations: bùlì [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄧˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], bat¹ lei⁶ [Cantonese, Jyutping], put-li [Hakka, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], put-lī, bùlì [Phonetic:búlì] [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄧˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], bùlì [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], pu⁴-li⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], bù-lì [Mandarin, Yale, standard], bulih [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], були [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], buli [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], bat¹ lei⁶ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Jyutping], bāt leih [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Yale], bat⁷ lei⁶ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Pinyin], bed¹ léi⁶ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong], put-li [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], bud` li [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], bud⁵ li⁴ [Hagfa-Pinyim, Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], put-lī [Hokkien, Min-Nan, POJ], put-lī [Hokkien, Min-Nan, Tai-lo], putli [Hokkien, Min-Nan, Phofsit-Daibuun]
Head templates: {{head|zh|adjective}} 不利
  1. unfavorable; disadvantageous; harmful; detrimental; adverse
    Sense id: en-不利-zh-adj-gMwhuVrs
  2. not smooth; unsuccessful; not going well; bad
    Sense id: en-不利-zh-adj-SwMu0HX3
  3. (literary) not sharp Tags: literary
    Sense id: en-不利-zh-adj-m2TFLFmh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 出師不利, 出师不利, 投無不利, 投无不利, 流年不利, 無往不利 (wúwǎngbùlì), 无往不利 (wúwǎngbùlì)

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "hēngtōng",
      "word": "亨通"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùnlì",
      "word": "順利"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùnlì",
      "word": "顺利"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùnxù",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "順序"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùnxù",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "顺序"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùndang",
      "word": "順當"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùndang",
      "word": "顺当"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùnsuì",
      "word": "順遂"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùnsuì",
      "word": "顺遂"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "出師不利"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "出师不利"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "投無不利"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "投无不利"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "流年不利"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "wúwǎngbùlì",
      "word": "無往不利"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "wúwǎngbùlì",
      "word": "无往不利"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "不利",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Drive carefully in adverse weather conditions.",
          "ref": "注意不利氣象條件。 [MSC, trad.]",
          "text": "注意不利气象条件。 [MSC, simp.]\nZhùyì bùlì qìxiàng tiáojiàn. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unfavorable; disadvantageous; harmful; detrimental; adverse"
      ],
      "id": "en-不利-zh-adj-gMwhuVrs",
      "links": [
        [
          "unfavorable",
          "unfavorable"
        ],
        [
          "disadvantageous",
          "disadvantageous"
        ],
        [
          "harmful",
          "harmful"
        ],
        [
          "detrimental",
          "detrimental"
        ],
        [
          "adverse",
          "adverse"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to be off to a bad start",
          "roman": "kāijú bùlì",
          "text": "開局不利/开局不利",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "not smooth; unsuccessful; not going well; bad"
      ],
      "id": "en-不利-zh-adj-SwMu0HX3",
      "links": [
        [
          "not",
          "not"
        ],
        [
          "smooth",
          "smooth"
        ],
        [
          "unsuccessful",
          "unsuccessful"
        ],
        [
          "going",
          "going"
        ],
        [
          "well",
          "well"
        ],
        [
          "bad",
          "bad"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "not sharp"
      ],
      "id": "en-不利-zh-adj-m2TFLFmh",
      "links": [
        [
          "not",
          "not"
        ],
        [
          "sharp",
          "sharp"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) not sharp"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bùlì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄧˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bat¹ lei⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "put-li"
    },
    {
      "tags": [],
      "zh-pron": "put-lī"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bùlì [Phonetic:búlì]"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄧˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bùlì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pu⁴-li⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bù-lì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bulih"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "були"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "buli"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ li⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bat¹ lei⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bāt leih"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bat⁷ lei⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bed¹ léi⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɐt̚⁵ lei̯²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "put-li"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bud` li"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bud⁵ li⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚² li⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "put-lī"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "put-lī"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "putli"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ li²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚⁵⁻²⁴ li⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁵ li²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ li³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ li³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Min-Nan"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "[Phonetic: búlì]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ li⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɐt̚⁵ lei̯²²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚² li⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ li²²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚⁵⁻²⁴ li⁴¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁵ li²²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ li³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ li³³/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "不利"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "hēngtōng",
      "word": "亨通"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùnlì",
      "word": "順利"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùnlì",
      "word": "顺利"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùnxù",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "順序"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùnxù",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "顺序"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùndang",
      "word": "順當"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùndang",
      "word": "顺当"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùnsuì",
      "word": "順遂"
    },
    {
      "roman": "shùnsuì",
      "word": "顺遂"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Chinese adjectives",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Hakka adjectives",
    "Hakka lemmas",
    "Min Nan adjectives",
    "Min Nan lemmas"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "出師不利"
    },
    {
      "word": "出师不利"
    },
    {
      "word": "投無不利"
    },
    {
      "word": "投无不利"
    },
    {
      "word": "流年不利"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wúwǎngbùlì",
      "word": "無往不利"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wúwǎngbùlì",
      "word": "无往不利"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "不利",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Drive carefully in adverse weather conditions.",
          "ref": "注意不利氣象條件。 [MSC, trad.]",
          "text": "注意不利气象条件。 [MSC, simp.]\nZhùyì bùlì qìxiàng tiáojiàn. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unfavorable; disadvantageous; harmful; detrimental; adverse"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unfavorable",
          "unfavorable"
        ],
        [
          "disadvantageous",
          "disadvantageous"
        ],
        [
          "harmful",
          "harmful"
        ],
        [
          "detrimental",
          "detrimental"
        ],
        [
          "adverse",
          "adverse"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to be off to a bad start",
          "roman": "kāijú bùlì",
          "text": "開局不利/开局不利",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "not smooth; unsuccessful; not going well; bad"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "not",
          "not"
        ],
        [
          "smooth",
          "smooth"
        ],
        [
          "unsuccessful",
          "unsuccessful"
        ],
        [
          "going",
          "going"
        ],
        [
          "well",
          "well"
        ],
        [
          "bad",
          "bad"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Chinese literary terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "not sharp"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "not",
          "not"
        ],
        [
          "sharp",
          "sharp"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) not sharp"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bùlì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄧˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bat¹ lei⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "put-li"
    },
    {
      "tags": [],
      "zh-pron": "put-lī"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bùlì [Phonetic:búlì]"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄧˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bùlì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pu⁴-li⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bù-lì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bulih"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "були"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "buli"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ li⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bat¹ lei⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bāt leih"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bat⁷ lei⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bed¹ léi⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɐt̚⁵ lei̯²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "put-li"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bud` li"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bud⁵ li⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚² li⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "put-lī"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "put-lī"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "putli"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ li²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚⁵⁻²⁴ li⁴¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁵ li²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ li³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Min-Nan",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ li³³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung",
        "Min-Nan"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "[Phonetic: búlì]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ li⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɐt̚⁵ lei̯²²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚² li⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ li²²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚⁵⁻²⁴ li⁴¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁵ li²²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ li³³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ li³³/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "不利"
}

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