不久

Chinese

		not; no	(long) time; (long) duration of time
simp. and trad. (不久)		不	久

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùjiǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ gau²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): put-kiú
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-kú / put-kiú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùjiǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùjiǒu
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-chiu³
    • Yale: bù-jyǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bujeou
    • Palladius: буцзю (buczju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ gau²
    • Yale: bāt gáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ gau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ geo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ kɐu̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: put-kiú
    • Hakka Romanization System: bud` giu`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bud⁵ giu³
    • Sinological IPA: /put̚² ki̯u³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-kú
    • Tâi-lô: put-kú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putkuo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ ku⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ ku⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ ku⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-kiú
    • Tâi-lô: put-kiú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putkiuo
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kiu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kiu⁵³/

Adverb

不久

1. soon; before long; not long (after)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 不久 (“soon; before long”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		頃之, 頃刻, 少頃, 俄而, 既而, 已而
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		不久
Mandarin	Beijing	不久, 沒多久
	Taiwan	不久, 沒多久
	Singapore	不久, 沒多久
Cantonese	Guangzhou	冇幾耐, 冇耐
	Hong Kong	冇幾耐, 冇耐
	Singapore (Guangfu)	冇幾耐
Hakka	Meixian	無幾久
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	無幾久
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	無幾久
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	無幾久
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	無幾久
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	無幾久
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	無幾久
Southern Min	Xiamen	無偌久
	Quanzhou	無偌久
	Zhangzhou	無偌久
	Taipei	無偌久
	Kaohsiung	無偌久
	Singapore (Hokkien)	無偌久
	Manila (Hokkien)	無偌久
	Shantou	唔久, 無若久
Wu	Wenzhou	不一下兒過