不得不

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Chinese

		must not; should not; not be allowed must not; should not; not be allowed; to not receive	not; no
simp. and trad. (不得不)		不得	不

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùdébù

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄜˊ ㄅㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ dak¹ bat¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): put-tet-put
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): put-tiak-put / put-tek-put

(Teochew, Peng'im): bud⁴ dig⁴ bug⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùdébù
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄉㄜˊ ㄅㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùdébù
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-tê²-pu⁴
  - Yale: bù-dé-bù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buderbu
  - Palladius: будэбу (budɛbu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ tɤ³⁵ pu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ dak¹ bat¹
  - Yale: bāt dāk bāt
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ dak⁷ bat⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ deg¹ bed¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ tɐk̚⁵ pɐt̚⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: put-tet-put
  - Hakka Romanization System: bud` ded` bud`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: bud⁵ ded⁵ bud⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /put̚² tet̚² put̚²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-tiak-put
  - Tâi-lô: put-tiak-put
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putdiakpud
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ tiak̚⁵⁻²⁴ put̚⁵/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-tek-put
  - Tâi-lô: put-tik-put
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putdekpud
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ tiɪk̚³²⁻⁴ put̚³²/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ tiɪk̚³²⁻⁵ put̚³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bud⁴ dig⁴ bug⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pud tik puk
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /put²⁻⁴ tik̚²⁻⁴ puk̚²/

Verb

不得不

have no choice but to; cannot but; have to

Synonyms

(Hokkien) 局不局

Derived terms

人在屋檐下，不得不低頭／人在屋檐下，不得不低头 (rén zài wūyán xià, bùdébù dītóu)
箭在弦上，不得不發／箭在弦上，不得不发 (jiàn zài xián shàng, bùdébù fā)

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