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Chinese
Pronunciation
Verb
不止
- to not stop
- to be no less than; to exceed
Synonyms
- (to be no less than): (literary, chiefly for emphasis) 不啻 (bùchì)
Adverb
不止
- incessantly; without end; nonstop
- (Mainland China Hokkien) quite; rather; considerably
- 不止緊/不止紧 [Hokkien] ― put-chí kín [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― quite fast
Synonyms
- (incessantly): 不住 (bùzhù)
- (quite): 相當/相当 (xiāngdāng), 比較/比较 (bǐjiào), 蠻/蛮 (mán), 挺 (tǐng); (Hokkien) 不止仔
Conjunction
不止
- not only; not merely
Synonyms
- 不但 (bùdàn)
- 不僅/不仅 (bùjǐn)
- 不光 (bùguāng)
- 不只 (bùzhǐ)
- 不單/不单 (bùdān)
- 不惟 (bùwéi) (literary)
- 不特 (bùtè) (literary)
- 不獨/不独 (bùdú)
- 不直 (bùzhí) (literary)
- 不論/不论 (bùlùn) (literary)
- 伓止 (ēng-cǐ) (Northern Min, Hokkien)
- 勿僅/勿仅 (8veq-jin) (Wu)
- 勿僅僅/勿仅仅 (8veq-jin-jin) (Wu)
- 勿光 (8veq-kuaon) (Wu)
- 唔只 (m4 zi2) (Cantonese)
- 唔單/唔单 (m6 duan1) (Teochew)
- 唔單只/唔单只 (m4 daan1 zi2) (Cantonese, Teochew)
- 唔淨只/唔净只 (m4 zing6 zi2) (Cantonese)
- 毋但 (Hokkien)
- 豈但/岂但 (qǐdàn) (literary)
- 非但 (fēidàn)
- 非獨/非独 (fēidú)
- 非論/非论 (fēilùn) (literary)