免用

Chinese

		to exempt; to remove; to avoid to exempt; to remove; to avoid; to excuse	to use
simp. and trad. (免用)		免	用

Pronunciation

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bián-iōng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ming² êng⁷ / mêng² êng⁷ / miang² êng⁷

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bián-iōng
    • Tâi-lô: bián-iōng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: biefn'iong
    • IPA (Taipei): /biɛn⁵³⁻⁴⁴ iɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɛn⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ iɔŋ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ming² êng⁷ / mêng² êng⁷ / miang² êng⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: míng ēng / méng ēng / miáng ēng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ eŋ¹¹/, /meŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ eŋ¹¹/, /miaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ eŋ¹¹/

Note: mêng2 êng7 - Jieyang.

Adverb

免用

1. (Southern Min) not necessary; don't; no need to

   • 不須父親爾掛意　我身此症免用醫 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     不须父亲尔挂意　我身此症免用医 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 1916, 白扇記歌

     put-su hū-chhin lí kòa-ì, góa sin chit chèng bián-iōng i [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     There is no need for you, Father, to worry; this illness on me does not need to be treated

   • 人廣多子餓死父　生着好子免用加 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     人广多子饿死父　生着好子免用加 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 1934, 新編二十四孝歌

     lâng kóng chōe kiáⁿ gō sí pē, siⁿ-tio̍h hó kiáⁿ bián-iōng ke [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     People say having many children will starve the father to death; if one gives birth to good children, there is no need to have more

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 不用 (“need not”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		不必, 無須, 毋庸
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		不必, 毋須, 無須, 無須乎, 不待
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	甭, 不用, 甭用
	Taiwan	不用
	Shenyang	甭
	Malaysia	不用
	Singapore	不用, 不必
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	甭
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	不用
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	不消
	Wuhan	不消, 用不著
	Kunming	不用
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	用不著
	Hefei	不用
Cantonese	Guangzhou	唔使
	Hong Kong	唔使
	Macau	唔使
	Taishan	唔使, 冇使
	Dongguan	唔使
	Yangjiang	無使, 使乜
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	冇使
	Hepu (Shatian)	冇使
	Beihai	冇使
	Beihai (Nankang)	冇使
	Beihai (Yingpan)	冇使
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	冇使
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	冇使
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	冇使
	Singapore (Guangfu)	唔使
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	唔使
Gan	Nanchang	不消, 用不著
Hakka	Meixian	唔使
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	唔使
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	唔使
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	唔使
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	唔使
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	唔使
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	唔使
	Kuching (Hepo)	唔使
Jin	Taiyuan	不用
Northern Min	Jian'ou	伓讓
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	伓使
	Matsu	伓使
	Singapore (Fuqing)	伓使
Southern Min	Xiamen	毋免, 免, 毋使
	Quanzhou	毋免, 免
	Zhangzhou	毋免, 免, 毋使
	Taipei	毋免, 免
	Kaohsiung	毋免, 免
	Penang (Hokkien)	毋免, 免
	Singapore (Hokkien)	毋免, 免
	Manila (Hokkien)	毋免, 免
	Chaozhou	免, 免用
	Shantou	免, 免用
	Shantou (Chenghai)	免
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	免
	Jieyang	免, 免用
	Singapore (Teochew)	免
	Pontianak (Teochew)	免
	Wenchang	無用
	Singapore (Hainanese)	無用
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	唔使
Wu	Shanghai	勿要, 覅, 用勿著, 勿用, 好勿要, 好覅
	Suzhou	用勿著
	Ningbo	甮, 好甮
	Wenzhou	覅用, 否用
Xiang	Changsha	不消
	Shuangfeng	不消, 不要