何不

Chinese

		carry; what; how carry; what; how; why; which	not; no
simp. and trad. (何不)		何	不

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hébù

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄅㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ho⁴ bat¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hébù
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄅㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hébù
  - Wade–Giles: ho²-pu⁴
  - Yale: hé-bù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: herbu
  - Palladius: хэбу (xɛbu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ pu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ho⁴ bat¹
  - Yale: hòh bāt
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ho⁴ bat⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: ho⁴ bed¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔː²¹ pɐt̚⁵/

Middle Chinese: ha pjuw|pjuwX|pjut

Rime
Character	何	不	不	不
Reading #	1/2	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)	尤 (136)	尤 (136)	文 (60)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	III	III	III
Fanqie	胡歌切	甫鳩切	方久切	分勿切
Baxter	ha	pjuw	pjuwX	pjut
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑ/	/pɨu/	/pɨu^X/	/pɨut̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑ/	/piu/	/piu^X/	/piut̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑ/	/piəu/	/piəu^X/	/piuət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦa/	/puw/	/puw^X/	/put̚/
Li Rong	/ɣɑ/	/piu/	/piu^X/	/piuət̚/
Wang Li	/ɣɑ/	/pĭəu/	/pĭəu^X/	/pĭuət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɑ/	/pi̯ə̯u/	/pi̯ə̯u^X/	/pi̯uət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hé	fōu	fǒu	fu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ho⁴	fau¹	fau²	fat¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤaj pə/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːl pɯ|pɯʔ|pɯ'/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	何	不
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hé	bù
Middle Chinese	‹ ha ›	‹ pjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁaj/	/*pə/
English	what	not
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	何	不	不	不
Reading #	1/2	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	7458	1025	1029	1048
Phonetic component	可	不	不	不
Rime group	歌	之	之	物
Rime subdivision	1	0	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	何	不	缶	弗
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːl/	/*pɯ/	/*pɯʔ/	/*pɯ'/
Notes			象花柎與本同源	中古才促化

Adverb

何不

(literary) why not
- 2020, “拼命無恙 [In a Funk]”, 林夕 [Albert Leung] (lyrics), 林家謙 [Terence Lam] (music)‎performed by 林家謙 [Terence Lam]:
  
  要是這樣豁達又何不專心著書 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
  要是这样豁达又何不专心著书 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]
  jiu³ si⁶ ze² joeng⁶ kut³ daat⁶ jau⁶ ho⁴ bat¹ zyun¹ sam¹ zyu³ syu¹ [Jyutping]
  If so open-minded, why not concentrate on writing a book?

Synonyms

(Hokkien) 哪毋
(Xiang) 叫莫

Derived terms

何不食肉糜 (hébù shí ròumí)

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