不甘

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Chinese

		not; no	sweet; willingly; Gansu province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (不甘)		不	甘

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùgān

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄍㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ gam¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): put-kâm
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-kam

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùgān
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄍㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùgan
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-kan¹
  - Yale: bù-gān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bugan
  - Palladius: бугань (buganʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ kän⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
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    不乾 / 不干
    不干
    不甘
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ gam¹
  - Yale: bāt gām
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ gam¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ gem¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ kɐm⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: put-kâm
  - Hakka Romanization System: bud^ˋ gam^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: bud⁵ gam¹
  - Sinological IPA: /put̚² kam²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-kam
  - Tâi-lô: put-kam
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putkafm
  - IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ kam³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ kam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kam⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kam⁴⁴/

Verb

不甘

(literary) to be unwilling; to not want to

Synonyms

(Hokkien, Teochew) 毋甘

Derived terms

不甘寂寞 (bùgānjìmò)
不甘後人 / 不甘后人 (bùgānhòurén)
不甘示弱 (bùgānshìruò)
不甘落後 / 不甘落后 (bùgānluòhòu)

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