別說

Chinese

		other; distinguish; contrary other; distinguish; contrary; difficult; awkward; leave; depart; separate; classify; another; do not; must not; to pin	to speak; to say; persuade (politically)
trad. (別說/別説/别説)		別/别	說/説
simp. (别说)		别	说

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): biéshuō

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄝˊ ㄕㄨㄛ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: biéshuō
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄝˊ ㄕㄨㄛ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: biéshuo
  - Wade–Giles: pieh²-shuo¹
  - Yale: byé-shwō
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: byeshuo
  - Palladius: бешо (bešo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛ³⁵ ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵/

Conjunction

別說

to say nothing of; let alone
- 18th century, Cao Xueqin, chapter 34, in Dream of the Red Chamber:
  
  [寶釵] 便點頭嘆道：「早聽人一句話，也不至今日。別說老太太太太心疼，就是我們看著心裡也疼……」 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
  [宝钗] 便点头叹道：「早听人一句话，也不至今日。别说老太太太太心疼，就是我们看着心里也疼……」 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]
  [Bǎochāi] biàn diǎn tóu tàn dào: “Zǎo tīng rén yī jù huà, yě bù zhì jīnrì. Biéshuō lǎotàitai tàitai xīnténg, jiù shì wǒmen kàn zhe xīn lǐ yě téng......” [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
(colloquial) used at the beginning of a sentence to express approval of the following utterance
- 2006 May 23, “八旬老太何来梅毒”, in 生活‎^[1], 新浪新闻 republished edition, archived from the original on 2016-04-10:
  
  牛先生开始收集整理老母亲的病例，希望能从中间找出一个答案。还别说，看着看着，疑点就出现了。 [MSC, simp.]
  牛先生開始收集整理老母親的病例，希望能從中間找出一個答案。還別說，看著看著，疑點就出現了。 [MSC, trad.]
  Niú Xiānsheng kāishǐ shōují zhěnglǐ lǎo mǔqin de bìnglì, xīwàng néng cóng zhōngjiān zhǎo chū yī ge dá'àn. Hái biéshuō, kàn zhe kàn zhe, yídiǎn jiù chūxiàn le. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

(to say nothing of): 別說是／别说是 (biéshuōshì)