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Chinese
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carry; what; how carry; what; how; why; which |
certainly; must; will certainly; must; will; necessarily |
simp. and trad.
(何必)
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何
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必
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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何
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必
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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hé
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bì
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ ha ›
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‹ pjit ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ˁaj/
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/*pi/
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| English
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what
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necessarily
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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何
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必
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| Reading #
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1/2
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1/1
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| No.
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7458
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568
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Phonetic
component
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可
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必
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Rime
group
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歌
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質
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
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何
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必
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Old
Chinese
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/*ɡaːl/
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/*pliɡ/
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Adverb
何必
- (in rhetorical questions) why; why on earth (i.e. there is no need); why bother
他已不愛你，何必呢？ [MSC, trad.]
他已不爱你，何必呢？ [MSC, simp.]- Tā yǐ bù ài nǐ, hébì ne?
- He doesn't love you anymore, so what's the point?
Synonyms
- 乜使 (Hokkien)
- 何乜苦 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
- 何得苦 (Hokkien)
- 何苦 (hékǔ)
- 何苦來／何苦来 (hékǔlái)
- 何須／何须 (héxū) (literary)
- 抑使 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
- 抑著 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 敢著／敢着 (Hokkien)
- 煞著 (Hokkien)
- 甲使 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
- 甲著／甲着 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
Derived terms
References
Korean
Adverb
何必 • (hapil) (hangeul 하필)
- hanja form? of 하필 (“of all things”)