"不必" meaning in Chinese

See 不必 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ pi⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /pɐt̚⁵ piːt̚⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/ [Hokkien, Xiamen], /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ pit̚⁵/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /put̚³²⁻⁵ pit̚³²/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/ [Hokkien, Taipei], /put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ pi⁵¹/, /pɐt̚⁵ piːt̚⁵/, /put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/, /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ pit̚⁵/, /put̚³²⁻⁵ pit̚³²/, /put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/, /put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/ Chinese transliterations: bùbì [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄅㄨˋ ㄅㄧˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], bat¹ bit¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], put-pit, bùbì [Phonetic:búbì] [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄅㄨˋ ㄅㄧˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], bùbì [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], pu⁴-pi⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], bù-bì [Mandarin, Yale, standard], bubih [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], буби [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], bubi [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], bāt bīt [Cantonese, Yale], bat⁷ bit⁷ [Cantonese, Pinyin], bed¹ bid¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], put-pit [Hokkien, POJ], put-pit [Hokkien, Tai-lo], putpid [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun]
Head templates: {{head|zh|adverb}} 不必
  1. no need to; not necessary to; don't have to
    Sense id: en-不必-zh-adv-YTg7vtE3 Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Elementary Mandarin, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 99 1 Disambiguation of Elementary Mandarin: 89 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 98 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 98 2 Synonyms (no need to): 無須, 毋庸, 毋須, 無須乎, 不待, Beijing, , 不用, 甭用, Taiwan, Shenyang, Malaysia, Singapore, Jinan, Xi'an, Chengdu, 不消, Wuhan, 用不著, Kunming, Yangzhou, Hefei, Guangzhou, 唔使, Hong Kong, Macau, Taishan, 冇使, Dongguan, Yangjiang, 無使, 使乜, Hepu (alt: Lianzhou), Hepu (alt: Shatian), Beihai, Beihai (alt: Nankang), Beihai (alt: Yingpan), Beihai (alt: Qiaogang - Cô Tô), Beihai (alt: Qiaogang - Cát Bà), Fangchenggang (alt: Fangcheng), Singapore [Guangfu], Ho Chi Minh City [Guangfu], Nanchang, Meixian, Miaoli (alt: N. Sixian), Pingtung (alt: Neipu; S. Sixian), Hsinchu County [Hailu, Zhudong], Taichung [Dabu, Dongshi], Hsinchu County [Qionglin, Raoping], Yunlin [Lunbei, Zhao'an], Kuching (alt: Hepo), Taiyuan, Jian'ou, 伓讓, Fuzhou, 伓使, Matsu, Singapore (alt: Fuqing), Xiamen, 毋免, , 毋使, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Penang [Hokkien], Singapore [Hokkien], Manila [Hokkien], Chaozhou, 免用, Shantou, Shantou (alt: Chenghai), Shantou (alt: Chaoyang), Jieyang, Singapore [Teochew], Pontianak [Teochew], Wenchang, 無用, Singapore [Hainanese], Zhongshan (alt: Longdu, Shaxi), Shanghai, 勿要, , 用勿著, 勿用, 好勿要, 好覅, Suzhou, Ningbo, , 好甮, Wenzhou, 覅用, 否用, Changsha, Shuangfeng, 不要 Disambiguation of 'no need to': 100 0
  2. not necessarily
    Sense id: en-不必-zh-adv-ehD7PcXr
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 不一定 (bùyīdìng), 不見得 (bùjiàndé), 不见得 (bùjiàndé), 唔一定 (m4 jat1 ding6) [Cantonese], 未嘗 (wèicháng) [literary], 未尝 (wèicháng) [literary], 未始 (wèishǐ) [literary], 未必 (wèibì), 未必然 [Hokkien, Xiamen, Zhangzhou-Hokkien], 未見得 (uei4 jienn4 de6) [Xiang], 未见得 (uei4 jienn4 de6) [Xiang], 無一定 [Hokkien], 无一定 [Hokkien], 無定著 [Min-Nan], 无定著 [Min-Nan], 無拄拄 [Hokkien], 无拄拄 [Hokkien], 無的確 [Min-Nan], 无的确 [Min-Nan]
{
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      },
      "expansion": "不必",
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  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "99 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "name": "Elementary Mandarin",
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        {
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "There is no need to say more than what is necessary.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "Duōyú de huà bùbì duō shuō.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "多餘的話不必多說。",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "There is no need to say more than what is necessary.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "Duōyú de huà bùbì duō shuō.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "多余的话不必多说。",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "no need to; not necessary to; don't have to"
      ],
      "id": "en-不必-zh-adv-YTg7vtE3",
      "links": [
        [
          "need",
          "need"
        ],
        [
          "necessary",
          "necessary"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "無須"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "毋庸"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "毋須"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "無須乎"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "不待"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Beijing"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "甭"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "不用"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "甭用"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Taiwan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Shenyang"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Malaysia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Singapore"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Jinan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Xi'an"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Chengdu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "不消"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Wuhan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "用不著"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Kunming"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Yangzhou"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Hefei"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Guangzhou"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "唔使"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Hong Kong"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Macau"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Taishan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "冇使"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Dongguan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Yangjiang"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "無使"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "使乜"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "Lianzhou",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Hepu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "Shatian",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Hepu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Beihai"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "Nankang",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Beihai"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "Yingpan",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Beihai"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "Qiaogang - Cô Tô",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Beihai"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "Qiaogang - Cát Bà",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Beihai"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "Fangcheng",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Fangchenggang"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "tags": [
            "Guangfu"
          ],
          "word": "Singapore"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "tags": [
            "Guangfu"
          ],
          "word": "Ho Chi Minh City"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Nanchang"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Meixian"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "N. Sixian",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Miaoli"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "Neipu; S. Sixian",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Pingtung"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "tags": [
            "Hailu",
            "Zhudong"
          ],
          "word": "Hsinchu County"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "tags": [
            "Dabu",
            "Dongshi"
          ],
          "word": "Taichung"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "tags": [
            "Qionglin",
            "Raoping"
          ],
          "word": "Hsinchu County"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "tags": [
            "Lunbei",
            "Zhao'an"
          ],
          "word": "Yunlin"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "Hepo",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Kuching"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Taiyuan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Jian'ou"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "伓讓"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Fuzhou"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "伓使"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Matsu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "Fuqing",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Singapore"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Xiamen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "毋免"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "免"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "毋使"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Quanzhou"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Zhangzhou"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Taipei"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Kaohsiung"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "Penang"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "Singapore"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "Manila"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Chaozhou"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "免用"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Shantou"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "Chenghai",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Shantou"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "Chaoyang",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Shantou"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Jieyang"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "tags": [
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "Singapore"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "tags": [
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "Pontianak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Wenchang"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "無用"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "tags": [
            "Hainanese"
          ],
          "word": "Singapore"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "alt": "Longdu, Shaxi",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Zhongshan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Shanghai"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "勿要"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "覅"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "用勿著"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "勿用"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "好勿要"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "好覅"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Suzhou"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Ningbo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "甮"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "好甮"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Wenzhou"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "覅用"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "否用"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Changsha"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "Shuangfeng"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "no need to",
          "word": "不要"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "not necessarily"
      ],
      "id": "en-不必-zh-adv-ehD7PcXr",
      "links": [
        [
          "necessarily",
          "necessarily"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bùbì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄅㄧˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bat¹ bit¹"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "put-pit"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bùbì [Phonetic:búbì]"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄅㄧˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bùbì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pu⁴-pi⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bù-bì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bubih"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "буби"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bubi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ pi⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bāt bīt"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bat⁷ bit⁷"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bed¹ bid¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɐt̚⁵ piːt̚⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "put-pit"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "put-pit"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "putpid"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚⁵⁻²⁴ pit̚⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁵ pit̚³²/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "[Phonetic: búbì]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ pi⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɐt̚⁵ piːt̚⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚⁵⁻²⁴ pit̚⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁵ pit̚³²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "bùyīdìng",
      "word": "不一定"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "bùjiàndé",
      "word": "不見得"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "bùjiàndé",
      "word": "不见得"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "m4 jat1 ding6",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "唔一定"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "wèicháng",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "未嘗"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "wèicháng",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "未尝"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "wèishǐ",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "未始"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "wèibì",
      "word": "未必"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou-Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "未必然"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "uei4 jienn4 de6",
      "tags": [
        "Xiang"
      ],
      "word": "未見得"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "uei4 jienn4 de6",
      "tags": [
        "Xiang"
      ],
      "word": "未见得"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "無一定"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "无一定"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "無定著"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "无定著"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "無拄拄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "无拄拄"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "無的確"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "无的确"
    }
  ],
  "word": "不必"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese adverbs",
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 不",
    "Chinese terms spelled with 必",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Elementary Mandarin",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "不必",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "There is no need to say more than what is necessary.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Traditional Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "Duōyú de huà bùbì duō shuō.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "多餘的話不必多說。",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "There is no need to say more than what is necessary.",
          "raw_tags": [
            "MSC",
            "Simplified Chinese"
          ],
          "roman": "Duōyú de huà bùbì duō shuō.",
          "tags": [
            "Pinyin"
          ],
          "text": "多余的话不必多说。",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "no need to; not necessary to; don't have to"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "need",
          "need"
        ],
        [
          "necessary",
          "necessary"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "not necessarily"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "necessarily",
          "necessarily"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bùbì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄅㄧˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bat¹ bit¹"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "put-pit"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bùbì [Phonetic:búbì]"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄅㄨˋ ㄅㄧˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bùbì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "pu⁴-pi⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bù-bì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bubih"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "буби"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bubi"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ pi⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bāt bīt"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bat⁷ bit⁷"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bed¹ bid¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɐt̚⁵ piːt̚⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "put-pit"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "put-pit"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "putpid"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚⁵⁻²⁴ pit̚⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁵ pit̚³²/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "[Phonetic: búbì]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ pi⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɐt̚⁵ piːt̚⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚⁵⁻²⁴ pit̚⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁵ pit̚³²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/put̚³²⁻⁴ pit̚³²/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "無須"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "毋庸"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "毋須"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "無須乎"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "不待"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Beijing"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "甭"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "不用"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "甭用"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Taiwan"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Shenyang"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Malaysia"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Singapore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Jinan"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Xi'an"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Chengdu"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "不消"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Wuhan"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "用不著"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Kunming"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Yangzhou"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Hefei"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Guangzhou"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "唔使"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Hong Kong"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Macau"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Taishan"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "冇使"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Dongguan"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Yangjiang"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "無使"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "使乜"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Lianzhou",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Hepu"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Shatian",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Hepu"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Beihai"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Nankang",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Beihai"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Yingpan",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Beihai"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Qiaogang - Cô Tô",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Beihai"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Qiaogang - Cát Bà",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Beihai"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Fangcheng",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Fangchenggang"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "tags": [
        "Guangfu"
      ],
      "word": "Singapore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "tags": [
        "Guangfu"
      ],
      "word": "Ho Chi Minh City"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Nanchang"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Meixian"
    },
    {
      "alt": "N. Sixian",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Miaoli"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Neipu; S. Sixian",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Pingtung"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "tags": [
        "Hailu",
        "Zhudong"
      ],
      "word": "Hsinchu County"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "tags": [
        "Dabu",
        "Dongshi"
      ],
      "word": "Taichung"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "tags": [
        "Qionglin",
        "Raoping"
      ],
      "word": "Hsinchu County"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "tags": [
        "Lunbei",
        "Zhao'an"
      ],
      "word": "Yunlin"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Hepo",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Kuching"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Taiyuan"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Jian'ou"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "伓讓"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Fuzhou"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "伓使"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Matsu"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Fuqing",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Singapore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Xiamen"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "毋免"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "免"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "毋使"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Quanzhou"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Zhangzhou"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Taipei"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Kaohsiung"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "Penang"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "Singapore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "Manila"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Chaozhou"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "免用"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Shantou"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Chenghai",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Shantou"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Chaoyang",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Shantou"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Jieyang"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "tags": [
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "Singapore"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "tags": [
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "Pontianak"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Wenchang"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "無用"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "tags": [
        "Hainanese"
      ],
      "word": "Singapore"
    },
    {
      "alt": "Longdu, Shaxi",
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Zhongshan"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Shanghai"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "勿要"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "覅"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "用勿著"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "勿用"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "好勿要"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "好覅"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Suzhou"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Ningbo"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "甮"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "好甮"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Wenzhou"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "覅用"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "否用"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Changsha"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "Shuangfeng"
    },
    {
      "sense": "no need to",
      "word": "不要"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bùyīdìng",
      "word": "不一定"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bùjiàndé",
      "word": "不見得"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bùjiàndé",
      "word": "不见得"
    },
    {
      "roman": "m4 jat1 ding6",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "唔一定"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wèicháng",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "未嘗"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wèicháng",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "未尝"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wèishǐ",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "未始"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wèibì",
      "word": "未必"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen",
        "Zhangzhou-Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "未必然"
    },
    {
      "roman": "uei4 jienn4 de6",
      "tags": [
        "Xiang"
      ],
      "word": "未見得"
    },
    {
      "roman": "uei4 jienn4 de6",
      "tags": [
        "Xiang"
      ],
      "word": "未见得"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "無一定"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "无一定"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "無定著"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "无定著"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "無拄拄"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "无拄拄"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "無的確"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Min-Nan"
      ],
      "word": "无的确"
    }
  ],
  "word": "不必"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (bcd5c38 and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.