Cantonese words starting with B

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A brush pot used to hold writing brushes.

bat1 sing1 bat1 hoeng2

不聲不響不声不响

Silent; taciturn; without making a sound or saying a word.

bat1 sing1 kei4 faan4

不勝其煩不胜其烦

To be unable to bear a nuisance, or to be thoroughly fed up with endless menial tasks.

bat1 sing1 kei4 fu2

不勝其苦不胜其苦

Unable to bear the pain, suffering, or hardship.

bat1 sing1 kei4 jiu5

不勝其擾不胜其扰

Unable to bear the annoyance or disturbance any longer; highly vexed.

bat1 sing1 mui4 geoi2

不勝枚舉不胜枚举

Too numerous to mention individually; too many to count or enumerate one by one.

bat1 sing2 jan4 si6

Unconscious; having lost consciousness.

To be unable to bear, stand, or cope with.

Could it be; is it possible that; used to add emphasis to a rhetorical question.

bat1 sing4 coi4

Good-for-nothing, useless, or unable to make something of oneself.

bat1 sing4 gung1 bin6 sing4 jan4

不成功便成仁

To succeed or die trying; to achieve one's goal or sacrifice oneself for a noble cause.

bat1 sing4 hei3 hau6

不成氣候不成气候

To not amount to anything; to be unlikely to succeed or become a major force; to have yet to master a skill.

bat1 sing4 jing6 zyu2 ji6

不承認主義不承认主义

The policy of non-recognition.

bat1 sing4 joeng6 zi2

不成樣子不成样子

Shapeless, ruined, or in a terrible state; (of a person) reduced to a shadow.

bat1 sing4 man4

Unwritten, informal, or tacitly accepted but not officially documented.

bat1 sing4 man4 faat3

Unwritten law; common law or customary law.

bat1 sing4 man6 tai4

不成問題不成问题

To not be a problem; to present no difficulty.

bat1 sing4 tai2 tung2

不成體統不成体统

Outrageous, scandalous, or highly inappropriate behavior that violates decorum.

bat1 sing4 waa6

不成話不成话

Outrageous, unreasonable, or improper.

To disdain, despise, or feel that doing something is beneath one's dignity.

bat1 sit3 jat1 gu3

不屑一顧不屑一顾

To dismiss with disdain, regarding something as not even worth a single glance or unworthy of attention.

Need not; there is no need to.

Quite a few; many; a good number of.

Careless, or accidentally; without paying attention.

bat1 siu2 sam1 gaa3 sai2

不小心駕駛不小心驾驶

Careless driving.

bat1 soeng1 fu4

To be inconsistent or not in agreement; to not match.

bat1 soeng1 gon1

Irrelevant; having nothing to do with each other.

bat1 soeng1 jung4

Incompatible; unable to coexist or work together.

bat1 soeng1 jung4 jyun4 lei5

不相容原理

The Pauli exclusion principle in physics.

bat1 soeng1 pei4 wai6

不傷脾胃不伤脾胃

Harmless; doing no damage to a situation or to a person's feelings.

bat1 soeng1 soeng6 haa6

Equally matched; about the same in ability, level, or status, making it difficult to distinguish who is better.

Unexpectedly; to one's surprise.

Seldom; rarely; not often.

To be in a bad mood, feeling unwell, or to be accurate and without error.

畢宿五毕宿五

Aldebaran; the brightest star in the constellation Taurus, also known as Alpha Tauri.

Don't bother to see me out; a polite phrase used by a departing guest to the host.

bat1 sung3 hei3

不送氣不送气

Unaspirated; pronounced without a release of breath.

Unwell, sick, or feeling physically or mentally uncomfortable.

不舒適不舒适

bat1 syun1 ji4 zin3

不宣而戰不宣而战

To open hostilities or start a war without a formal declaration.

To do mathematical calculations in writing.

bat1 syut3 bat1 zi1

不說不知不说不知

To not know something until someone else mentions or points it out.

bat1 syut3 zi6 ming4

不說自明不说自明

Self-evident; obvious; to go without saying.

bat1 taai3 hou2

Not so good; not very well.

To communicate in writing instead of speaking, or a collection of casual essays.

The lid, cover, or cap of a pen or ballpoint pen.

The cap of a pen.

不體面不体面

Shameful, disgraceful, or not appearing decent or respectful.

A ghostwriter or substitute calligrapher, often poorly paid.

No more of that; let us say no more about this.