不得了

Chinese

		not; no	controllable; can be handled
simp. and trad. (不得了)		不	得了
anagram		了不得

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùdéliǎo

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄜˊ ㄌㄧㄠˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ dak¹ liu⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-tek-liáu / put-tiak-liáu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùdéliǎo
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄜˊ ㄌㄧㄠˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùdéliǎo
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-tê²-liao³
  - Yale: bù-dé-lyǎu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buderleau
  - Palladius: будэляо (budɛljao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ tɤ³⁵ li̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ dak¹ liu⁵
  - Yale: bāt dāk líuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ dak⁷ liu⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ deg¹ liu⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ tɐk̚⁵ liːu̯¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-tek-liáu
  - Tâi-lô: put-tik-liáu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putdekliao
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ tiɪk̚³²⁻⁵ liau⁵³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ tiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ liau⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ tiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ liau⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-tiak-liáu
  - Tâi-lô: put-tiak-liáu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putdiakliao
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ tiak̚⁵⁻²⁴ liau⁵⁵⁴/

Adjective

不得了

desperately serious; disastrous; terrible; awful
(colloquial) terrific; awesome

Synonyms

(serious):

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了不得 (colloquial)
勿得了 (Wu)
嚴峻 / 严峻 (yánjùn)
嚴重 / 严重 (yánzhòng)
慘 / 惨 (cǎn) (of losses, defeats, etc.)
慘重 / 惨重 (cǎnzhòng)
深重 (shēnzhòng)
礙事 / 碍事 (àishì) (often in the negative)
腬身 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
要緊 / 要紧 (yàojǐn)
重大

(terrific):

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了不得 (colloquial)
了不起 (liǎobùqǐ) (colloquial)
了勿起 (Wu)
佼佼 (jiǎojiǎo) (literary)
俊偉 / 俊伟 (jùnwěi) (literary)
偉大 / 伟大 (wěidà)
傑出 / 杰出 (jiéchū)
傲人 (àorén) (nowadays especially of breasts, body curve)
優異 / 优异 (yōuyì)
優秀 / 优秀 (yōuxiù)
優越 / 优越 (yōuyuè)
出挑 (chhut-thio) (Quanzhou Hokkien)
出擢 (Hokkien)
出眾 / 出众 (chūzhòng)
出腳 / 出脚 (Hokkien)
出色 (chūsè)
勢面 / 势面 (Hokkien)
勿得了 (Wu)
卓然 (zhuórán) (literary)
卓犖 / 卓荦 (zhuóluò) (literary)
卓異 / 卓异 (zhuóyì) (literary)
卓著 / 卓着 (zhuózhù)
卓越 (zhuóyuè)
厲害 / 厉害 (lìhài) (informal)
咧斗 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
咧斗 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
好極了 / 好极了 (hǎo jíle)
尤異 / 尤异 (yóuyì) (literary)
崢嶸 / 峥嵘 (zhēngróng)
彰顯 / 彰显 (zhāngxiǎn)
惡實 / 恶实 (o⁵ shr⁶) (Xiang, used as a complement)
打得 (Hakka)
挺 (tǐng)
斐然 (fěirán)
棒 (bàng) (colloquial)
標青 / 标青 (biu¹ ceng¹) (Cantonese, Teochew)
漂亮
炳 (bǐng) (literary)
牛 (niú) (Mandarin, slang)
牛鬼 (Guilin Mandarin)
特出 (tèchū)
特異 / 特异 (tèyì)
犀利 (xīlì) (originally Cantonese, sometimes Mandarin)
皦皦 (jiǎojiǎo) (literary)
看家 (kānjiā) (attributive, of skill, ability, etc.)
穩 / 稳 (wěn) (slang, neologism)
突出 (tūchū)
英英 (yīngyīng) (literary)
蓋帽 / 盖帽 (gàimào) (slang)
表表 (biǎobiǎo) (literary)
超凡 (chāofán)
超卓 (chāozhuó) (literary)
超常 (chāocháng)
超拔 (chāobá) (literary)
超絕 / 超绝 (chāojué)
非凡 (fēifán)
響噹噹 / 响当当 (xiǎngdāngdāng)
顯著 / 显着 (xiǎnzhù)
高強 / 高强 (gāoqiáng)

Adverb

不得了

extremely
快得不得了 ― kuài de bùdéliǎo ― extremely fast

條街多人到不得了。 [Cantonese, trad.]
条街多人到不得了。 [Cantonese, simp.]
tiu⁴ gaai¹ do¹ jan⁴ dou³ bat¹ dak¹ liu⁵. [Jyutping]
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Interjection

不得了

(colloquial) oh my God