不息

Chinese

		not; no	rest; news; interest rest; news; interest; breath
simp. and trad. (不息)		不	息

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùxī, bùxí

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧ, ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ sik¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): put-sit

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùxī
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùsi
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-hsi¹
    • Yale: bù-syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bushi
    • Palladius: буси (busi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ ɕi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùxí
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùsí
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-hsi²
    • Yale: bù-syí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bushyi
    • Palladius: буси (busi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ ɕi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bat¹ sik¹
    • Yale: bāt sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ sɪk̚⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 不惜 不識 / 不识 不適 / 不适

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: put-sit
    • Hakka Romanization System: bud^ˋ xid^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bud⁵ xid⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /put̚² sit̚²/

Verb

不息

1. to not stop; to be ceaseless

   全場掌聲不息／全场掌声不息  ―  quánchǎng zhǎngshēng bùxī  ―  ceaseless applause from the audience

Derived terms

• 奔流不息
• 川流不息 (chuānliúbùxī)
• 循環不息 / 循环不息 (xúnhuánbùxī)
• 生生不息 (shēngshēngbùxī)
• 綿綿不息 / 绵绵不息
• 自強不息 / 自强不息 (zìqiángbùxī)