無可救藥

See also: 无可救药

Chinese

		not have	can; may; able to can; may; able to; certain(ly); to suit; (particle used for emphasis)	to save; to assist; to rescue	medicine; drug; cure
trad. (無可救藥)		無	可	救	藥
simp. (无可救药)		无	可	救	药
Literally: “there is no medicine that can save”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wúkějiùyào

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ ㄎㄜˇ ㄐㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴ ho² gau³ joek⁶
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): bho⁵ ko² giu³ ioh⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wúkějiùyào
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˊ ㄎㄜˇ ㄐㄧㄡˋ ㄧㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúkějiòuyào
    • Wade–Giles: wu²-kʻo³-chiu⁴-yao⁴
    • Yale: wú-kě-jyòu-yàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wukeejiowyaw
    • Palladius: укэцзюяо (ukɛczjujao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³⁵ kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ jɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁴ ho² gau³ joek⁶
    • Yale: mòuh hó gau yeuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴ ho² gau³ joek⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴ ho² geo³ yêg⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ hɔː³⁵ kɐu̯³³ jœːk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bho⁵ ko² giu³ ioh⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bô khó kiù io̍h
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /bo⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kʰo⁵²⁻³⁵ kiu²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ioʔ⁴/

Idiom

無可救藥

1. utterly hopeless; unable to be saved (helped); beyond the point of help

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 不可救藥 (“incurable; beyond cure; beyond help”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		不可救藥, 無可救藥, 無藥可救
Mandarin	Taiwan	無藥可救
	Singapore	無藥可救
Cantonese	Hong Kong	無藥可救, 冇得救, 冇藥醫
Hakka	Meixian	無救
Southern Min	Xiamen	無藥醫, 無醫
	Quanzhou	無醫
	Zhangzhou	無醫
	Tainan	無藥醫, 無醫
	Jieyang	無救泅
	Leizhou	無藥醫
Wu	Shanghai	嘸藥醫