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

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

not good; poor; insufficient
(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

to not be good at something

Synonyms

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

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