不堪設想

Chinese

		to be unable to; must not; should not to be unable to; must not; should not; to be unable to bear; to be unable to stand	to suppose; to presume; to envisage to suppose; to presume; to envisage; to consider; to have consideration for
trad. (不堪設想)		不堪	設想
simp. (不堪设想)		不堪	设想

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùkānshèxiǎng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄢ ㄕㄜˋ ㄒㄧㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ ham¹ cit³ soeng²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-kham-siat-sióng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùkānshèxiǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄢ ㄕㄜˋ ㄒㄧㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùkanshèsiǎng
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-kʻan¹-shê⁴-hsiang³
    • Yale: bù-kān-shè-syǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bukanshehsheang
    • Palladius: буканьшэсян (bukanʹšɛsjan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ kʰän⁵⁵ ʂɤ⁵¹ ɕi̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ ham¹ cit³ soeng²
    • Yale: bāt hām chit séung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ ham¹ tsit⁸ soeng²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ hem¹ qid³ sêng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ hɐm⁵⁵ t͡sʰiːt̚³ sœːŋ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-kham-siat-sióng
    • Tâi-lô: put-kham-siat-sióng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putqamsiatsiorng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰam⁴⁴⁻²² siɛt̚³²⁻⁴ siɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ kʰam³³ siɛt̚⁵⁻²⁴ siɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ kʰam⁴⁴⁻²² siɛt̚³²⁻⁵ siɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰam⁴⁴⁻³³ siɛt̚³²⁻⁴ siɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰam⁴⁴⁻³³ siɛt̚³²⁻⁴ siɔŋ⁴¹/

Idiom

不堪設想

1. too dreadful to contemplate; too horrible to imagine

   後果不堪設想。／后果不堪设想。  ―  Hòuguǒ bùkānshèxiǎng.  ―  The consequences will be disastrous.

   • 例如眼前國民黨反動派被我們所推翻，過去日本帝國主義被我們和各國人民所推翻，對於被推翻者來說，這是痛苦的，不堪設想的。 [MSC, trad.]
     例如眼前国民党反动派被我们所推翻，过去日本帝国主义被我们和各国人民所推翻，对于被推翻者来说，这是痛苦的，不堪设想的。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1949, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論人民民主專政》 (On the People's Democratic Dictatorship). English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Lìrú yǎnqián Guómíndǎng fǎndòngpài bèi wǒmen suǒ tuīfān, guòqù Rìběn dìguó zhǔyì bèi wǒmen hé gèguó rénmín suǒ tuīfān, duìyú bèituīfānzhě lái shuō, zhè shì tòngkǔ de, bùkānshèxiǎng de. [Pinyin]

     To be overthrown is painful and is unbearable to contemplate for those overthrown, for example, for the Kuomintang reactionaries whom we are now overthrowing and for Japanese imperialism which we together with other peoples overthrew some time ago.