唔識

See also: 唔识

Chinese

		hold in mouth; bite; (Cant.) no/not	to record; write a footnote; to know to record; write a footnote; to know; knowledge
trad. (唔識)		唔	識
simp. (唔识)		唔	识

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): m⁴ sik¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: m⁴ sik¹
    • Yale: m̀h sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: m⁴ sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: m⁴ xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /m̩²¹ sɪk̚⁵/

Verb

唔識

1. (Cantonese) to not know something; can't do (lack of knowledge)

   我唔識講廣東話。 [Guangzhou Cantonese, trad.]
   我唔识讲广东话。 [Guangzhou Cantonese, simp.]

   ngo⁵ m⁴ sik¹ gong² gwong² dung¹ waa^6-2. [Jyutping]

   I don't speak Cantonese.

2. (Cantonese) to not know something (never seen before)

   我唔識佢。／我唔识佢。 [Guangzhou Cantonese]  ―  ngo⁵ m⁴ sik¹ keoi⁵. [Jyutping]  ―  I don't know him.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 不會 (“to be unable to; to not know how to”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		不會, 不懂得
Mandarin	Beijing	不會
	Taiwan	不會
	Jinan	不會
	Xi'an	不會
	Wuhan	不會, 不曉得
	Chengdu	不會
	Guilin	沒懂
	Yangzhou	不會
	Hefei	不會
	Malaysia	不會
	Singapore	不會
Cantonese	Guangzhou	唔會, 唔識, 唔曉
	Hong Kong	唔識, 唔曉
	Macau	唔識
	Yangjiang	無會, 無識
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	唔識
	Singapore (Guangfu)	唔識
Gan	Nanchang	不會, 不曉得
Hakka	Meixian	唔會, 唔識得, 唔曉
	Kuching (Hepo)	唔曉
Jin	Taiyuan	不會
Northern Min	Jian'ou	𣍐1
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	𣍐1
Southern Min	Xiamen	𣍐1, 𣍐曉, 𣍐曉得
	Quanzhou	𣍐1, 𣍐曉, 𣍐曉得
	Zhangzhou	𣍐1, 𣍐曉
	Taipei	𣍐曉
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	𣍐曉
	Kaohsiung	𣍐曉
	Yilan	𣍐曉
	Changhua (Lukang)	𣍐曉
	Taichung	𣍐曉
	Tainan	𣍐曉
	Penang (Hokkien)	𣍐曉
	Singapore (Hokkien)	𣍐曉
	Manila (Hokkien)	𣍐曉
	Medan (Hokkien)	𣍐曉
	Chaozhou	𣍐1, 唔曉
	Shantou	𣍐1
	Jieyang	𣍐1, 唔曉
	Singapore (Teochew)	𣍐曉
	Wenchang	無捌
	Singapore (Hainanese)	無捌
Wu	Shanghai	勿會, 𣍐2
	Suzhou	勿會
	Wenzhou	否會, 唔奔
Xiang	Changsha	不會, 不曉得
	Shuangfeng	不會, 不曉得

• 不懂 (bùdǒng)