不是……而是……

Chinese

		to not be		but; rather
simp. and trad. (不是……而是……)		不是	……	而是

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùshì...érshì...

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˋ ... ㄦˊ ㄕˋ ...

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ si⁶... ji⁴ si⁶...

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùshì...érshì... [Phonetic: búshì...érshì...]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˋ ... ㄦˊ ㄕˋ ...
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùshìh...-érshìh...
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-shih⁴...-êrh²-shih⁴...
    • Yale: bù-shr̀-...-ér-shr̀-...
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bushyh...erlshyh...
    • Palladius: буши...эрши... (buši...erši...)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ ˀɤɻ³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ si⁶... ji⁴ si⁶...
    • Yale: bāt sih... yìh sih...
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ si⁶... ji⁴ si⁶...
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ xi⁶... yi⁴ xi⁶...
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ siː²² jiː²¹ siː²² /

Conjunction

不是……而是……

1. not ... but ...

   他不是英国人，而是美国人。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Tā bùshì Yīngguórén, érshì Měiguórén. [Pinyin]

   He is not a Brit but an American.

See also

• 不是……就是…… (bùshì...jiùshì...)