不敏

Chinese

		not; no	keen; sensitive
simp. and trad. (不敏)		不	敏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùmǐn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄇㄧㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ man⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùmǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄇㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùmǐn
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-min³
    • Yale: bù-mǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bumiin
    • Palladius: буминь (buminʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ min²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ man⁵
    • Yale: bāt máhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ man⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ men⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ mɐn¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: pjuw|pjuwX|pjut minX

Rime
Character	不	不	不	敏
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)	尤 (136)	物 (60)	眞 (44)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Checked (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III	III	III
Fanqie	甫鳩切	方久切	分勿切	眉殞切
Baxter	pjuw	pjuwX	pjut	minX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨu/	/pɨuX/	/pɨut̚/	/mˠiɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/piu/	/piuX/	/piut̚/	/mᵚinX/
Shao Rongfen	/piəu/	/piəuX/	/piuət̚/	/mienX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puw/	/puwX/	/put̚/	/mjinX/
Li Rong	/piu/	/piuX/	/piuət̚/	/mjĕnX/
Wang Li	/pĭəu/	/pĭəuX/	/pĭuət̚/	/mǐĕnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ə̯u/	/pi̯ə̯uX/	/pi̯uət̚/	/mi̯ĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fōu	fǒu	fu	mǐn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fau1	fau2	fat1	man5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pə  mrə[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pɯ|pɯʔ|pɯ'  mrɯʔ|mrɯŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	不	敏
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bù	mǐn
Middle Chinese	‹ pjuw ›	‹ minX ›
Old Chinese	/*pə/	/*mrə[n]ʔ/ (~ *mrəʔ)
English	not	diligent, active
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	不	不	不	敏	敏
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3	1/2	2/2
No.	1025	1029	1048	9296	9297
Phonetic component	不	不	不	母	母
Rime group	之	之	物	之	蒸
Rime subdivision	0	0	1	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	不	缶	弗	愍	愍
Old Chinese	/*pɯ/	/*pɯʔ/	/*pɯ'/	/*mrɯʔ/	/*mrɯŋʔ/
Notes		象花柎與本同源	中古才促化

Adjective

不敏

1. (literary, sometimes humble) not clever