要不是

Chinese

		important; vital; to want important; vital; to want; to be going to; must; demand; ask; request; coerce	not; no	be; yes; this
trad. (要不是)		要	不	是
simp. ^#(要不是)		要	不	是

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yàobùshì

(Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jiu³ bat¹ si⁶
Min Nan (Hokkien, POJ): iàu-put-sǐ / iàu-put-sī

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yàobùshì [Phonetic: yàobúshì] → yàobushì (toneless variant)
  - Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˋ → ㄧㄠˋ ˙ㄅㄨㄕˋ (toneless variant)
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yàobůshìh
  - Wade–Giles: yao⁴-pu⁵-shih⁴
  - Yale: yàu-bu-shr̀
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yawbushyh
  - Palladius: яобуши (jaobuši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯⁵¹ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/ → /jɑʊ̯⁵¹ b̥u¹ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: jiu³ bat¹ si⁶
  - Yale: yiu bāt sih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jiu³ bat⁷ si⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: yiu³ bed¹ xi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːu̯³³ pɐt̚⁵ siː²²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iàu-put-sǐ
  - Tâi-lô: iàu-put-sǐ
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iau⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ put̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɕi²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iàu-put-sī
  - Tâi-lô: iàu-put-sī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iao'putsi
  - IPA (Xiamen): /iau²¹⁻⁵³ put̚³²⁻⁴ ɕi²²/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iau²¹⁻⁵³ put̚³²⁻⁵ ɕi²²/

Conjunction

要不是

were it not for; if not for
要不是您收留我，我還能上哪兒去呀？ [MSC, trad.]
要不是您收留我，我还能上哪儿去呀？ [MSC, simp.]
Yàobùshì nín shōuliú wǒ, wǒ hái néng shàng nǎr qù ya? [Pinyin]
If you hadn't have taken me in, where could I have gone?

Synonyms

(literary) 若非 (ruòfēi)

See also

要唔係／要唔系

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