在乎

Chinese

		(located) at; in; exist (located) at; in; exist; (before verbs) immediately involved in; right in the middle of doing	(interrog. part.)
simp. and trad. (在乎)		在	乎

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zàihū

(Zhuyin): ㄗㄞˋ ㄏㄨ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zoi⁶ fu⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chhai-fû

(Meixian, Guangdong): cai⁴ fu¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chāi-ho͘ / chǎi-ho͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): do⁶ hu¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zàihū → zàihu (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄞˋ ㄏㄨ → ㄗㄞˋ ˙ㄏㄨ (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zàihů
  - Wade–Giles: tsai⁴-hu⁵
  - Yale: dzài-hu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzay.hu
  - Palladius: цзайху (czajxu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saɪ̯⁵¹ xu⁵⁵/ → /t͡saɪ̯⁵¹ xu¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: zoi⁶ fu⁴
  - Yale: joih fùh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzoi⁶ fu⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: zoi⁶ fu⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːi̯²² fuː²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhai-fû
  - Hakka Romanization System: cai fu´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cai⁴ fu¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰai̯⁵⁵ fu²⁴/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: cai⁴ fu¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰaɪ⁵³ fu⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chāi-ho͘
  - Tâi-lô: tsāi-hoo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zaixhof
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sai²²⁻²¹ hɔ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chǎi-ho͘
  - Tâi-lô: tsǎi-hoo
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sai²² hɔ³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: do⁶ hu¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tŏ hu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /to³⁵⁻¹¹ hu³³/

Verb

在乎

(colloquial) to mind; to care about
我不在乎。 ― Wǒ bù zàihu. ― I don't care.

我唔在乎。 [Guangzhou Cantonese] ― ngo⁵ m⁴ zoi⁶ fu⁴. [Jyutping] ― I don't care.
to lie in; to be in; to be situated at

Synonyms

(to mind):

介意 (jièyì)
介懷／介怀 (jièhuái) (literary)
在心 (zàixīn)
在意 (zàiyì)
放在心上 (fàng zài xīn shàng)
當作一回事／当作一回事 (dàngzuò yī huí shì)
當回事／当回事 (dànghuíshì)

(to lie in): 在於／在于 (zàiyú)

Derived terms

不在乎 (bù zàihu)

See also

計較／计较 (jìjiào)
認真／认真 (rènzhēn)
重視／重视 (zhòngshì)

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