不見得

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See also: 不见得

Chinese

		not; no	to seem
trad. (不見得)		不	見得
simp. (不见得)		不	见得
anagram		見不得／见不得
Literally: “to not seem to be”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùjiàndé

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄜˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ gin³ dak¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-kiàn-tit / put-kiàn-tek

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùjiàndé
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄜˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùjiàndé
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-chien⁴-tê²
  - Yale: bù-jyàn-dé
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bujiannder
  - Palladius: буцзяньдэ (buczjanʹdɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹ tɤ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ gin³ dak¹
  - Yale: bāt gin dāk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ gin³ dak⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ gin³ deg¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ kiːn³³ tɐk̚⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-kiàn-tit
  - Tâi-lô: put-kiàn-tit
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putkierndid
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ kiɛn²¹⁻⁵³ tit̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ kiɛn⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tit̚⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kiɛn²¹⁻⁵³ tit̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-kiàn-tek
  - Tâi-lô: put-kiàn-tik
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putkierndeg
  - IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kiɛn²¹⁻⁵³ tiɪk̚³²/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ kiɛn²¹⁻⁵³ tiɪk̚³²/

Adverb

不見得

not necessarily; unlikely to

Synonyms

不一定 (bùyīdìng)
不必 (bùbì)
唔一定 (m⁴ jat¹ ding⁶) (Cantonese)
未嘗／未尝 (wèicháng) (literary)
未始 (wèishǐ) (literary)
未必 (wèibì)
未必然 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
未見得／未见得 (uei⁴ jienn⁴ de⁶) (Xiang)
無一定／无一定 (Hokkien)
無定著／无定著 (Min Nan)
無拄拄／无拄拄 (Hokkien)
無的確／无的确 (Min Nan)

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