不甘

Chinese

		not; no	sweet; willingly; Gansu province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (不甘)		不	甘

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùgān

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄍㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ gam¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): put-kâm
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-kam

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùgān
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄍㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùgan
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-kan¹
    • Yale: bù-gān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bugan
    • Palladius: бугань (buganʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ kän⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 不乾／不干 不干 不甘

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ gam¹
    • Yale: bāt gām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ gam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ gem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ kɐm⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: put-kâm
    • Hakka Romanization System: bud^ˋ gam^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bud⁵ gam¹
    • Sinological IPA: /put̚² kam²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-kam
    • Tâi-lô: put-kam
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putkafm
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ kam³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ kam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kam⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kam⁴⁴/

Verb

不甘

1. (literary) to be unwilling; to not want to

Synonyms

• (Hokkien, Teochew) 毋甘

Derived terms

• 不甘寂寞 (bùgānjìmò)
• 不甘後人／不甘后人 (bùgānhòurén)
• 不甘示弱 (bùgānshìruò)
• 不甘落後／不甘落后 (bùgānluòhòu)