微薄

Chinese

		tiny; minute; clandestine tiny; minute; clandestine; hide; elegant; exquisite	thin; slight; meagre thin; slight; meagre; small; ungenerous; unkind; mean; frivolous; despise; belittle; to approach; to go near; peppermint
trad. (微薄)		微	薄
simp. #(微薄)		微	薄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wēibó, wéibó

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟ ㄅㄛˊ, ㄨㄟˊ ㄅㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁴ bok⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bî-po̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wēibó
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟ ㄅㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: weibó
    • Wade–Giles: wei¹-po²
    • Yale: wēi-bwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ueibor
    • Palladius: вэйбо (vɛjbo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯⁵⁵ pu̯ɔ³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; dated variant in Mainland)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wéibó
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˊ ㄅㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wéibó
    • Wade–Giles: wei²-po²
    • Yale: wéi-bwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: weibor
    • Palladius: вэйбо (vɛjbo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯³⁵ pu̯ɔ³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mei⁴ bok⁶
    • Yale: mèih bohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁴ bok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: méi⁴ bog⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯²¹ pɔːk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bî-po̍k
    • Tâi-lô: bî-po̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bi'pok
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bi²⁴⁻²² pɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bi²⁴⁻²² pɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi¹³⁻²² pɔk̚¹²¹/

Adjective

微薄

1. meager; scanty; negligible

   儘我微薄之力／尽我微薄之力  ―  jǐn wǒ wēibó zhī lì  ―  to make my negligible contribution; to do my bit

Synonyms

• (literary) 瘠薄 (jíbó)