難不成

Chinese

		disaster; distress; to scold disaster; distress; to scold; difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good	to not form; to not constitute; unsuccessful
trad. (難不成)		難	不成
simp. (难不成)		难	不成

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nánbuchéng, nánbùchéng

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ ˙ㄅㄨ ㄔㄥˊ, ㄋㄢˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄔㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naan⁴ bat¹ sing⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nánbuchéng
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ ˙ㄅㄨ ㄔㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nánbůchéng
    • Wade–Giles: nan²-pu⁵-chʻêng²
    • Yale: nán-bu-chéng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nanbucherng
    • Palladius: наньбучэн (nanʹbučɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nän³⁵ b̥u³ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nánbùchéng
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄔㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nánbùchéng
    • Wade–Giles: nan²-pu⁴-chʻêng²
    • Yale: nán-bù-chéng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nanbucherng
    • Palladius: наньбучэн (nanʹbučɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nän³⁵ pu⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: naan⁴ bat¹ sing⁴
    • Yale: nàahn bāt sìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naan⁴ bat⁷ sing⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: nan⁴ bed¹ xing⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naːn²¹ pɐt̚⁵ sɪŋ²¹/

Adverb

難不成

1. (rhetorical question) Indicates a rhetorical question: surely it doesn't mean that...; is it possible that...

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 難道 (“could it be that; is it possible that”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		莫非, 豈, 莫不是
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		莫非, 豈, 難道, 莫不是
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	難道, 難不成, 甭
	Taiwan	難道, 難不成
Central Plains Mandarin	Xuzhou	難說
Cantonese	Guangzhou	唔通
	Hong Kong	唔通
	Taishan	唔成, 敢係, 唔得旨, 毋旨, 毋旨估
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	無成, 敢講, 敢係
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	無成, 敢講, 敢係
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	無成, 敢講, 敢係
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	無成, 敢講, 敢會, 敢係
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	無成, 毋成, 敢講, 敢係
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	無敢, 敢講, 敢會, 敢係
Southern Min	Xiamen	敢, 總無
	Quanzhou	敢, 總無, 攏無
	Zhangzhou	敢, 總無
	Tainan	敢
	Manila (Hokkien)	敢
	Shantou	未是
	Jieyang	未是, 敢, 敢是
Wu	Shanghai	只勿
	Shanghai (Chongming)	難算得
Xiang	Changsha	冇過