不比

Chinese

		not; no	side by side; compare; to gesture side by side; compare; to gesture; than; ratio
trad. (不比)		不	比
simp. #(不比)		不	比

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùbǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄅㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ bei²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-pí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùbǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄅㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùbǐ
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-pi³
    • Yale: bù-bǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bubii
    • Palladius: буби (bubi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ pi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ bei²
    • Yale: bāt béi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ bei²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ béi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ pei̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-pí
    • Tâi-lô: put-pí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putpie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ pi⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ pi⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ pi⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ pi⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ pi⁴¹/

Verb

不比

1. to be unable to compare with; to be unequal to; to be inferior to

   我不比你，文化基礎太差。 [MSC, trad.]
   我不比你，文化基础太差。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ bùbǐ nǐ, wénhuà jīchǔ tài chà. [Pinyin]

   Unlike you, I am not very well-educated.

2. to be unlike; differ

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 比不上 (“cannot compare with; not as good as”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		不若
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		比不上, 不如, 不比
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	當不倒
Cantonese	Hong Kong	比唔上
Southern Min	Xiamen	𣍐拚, 𣍐拚得, 無拚, 無比止, 較輸
	Quanzhou	無拚, 較輸
	Zhangzhou	𣍐拚, 𣍐拚得, 無拚, 較輸