無藥可救

See also: 无药可救

Chinese

		not have	medicine; drug; cure	can; may; able to can; may; able to; certain(ly); to suit; (particle used for emphasis)	to save; to assist; to rescue
trad. (無藥可救)		無	藥	可	救
simp. (无药可救)		无	药	可	救
Literally: “no medicine can save; unable to be saved by any medicine”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wúyàokějiù

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ ㄧㄠˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄐㄧㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴ joek⁶ ho² gau³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bô-io̍h-khó-kiù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wúyàokějiù
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˊ ㄧㄠˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄐㄧㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúyàokějiòu
    • Wade–Giles: wu²-yao⁴-kʻo³-chiu⁴
    • Yale: wú-yàu-kě-jyòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuyawkeejiow
    • Palladius: уяокэцзю (ujaokɛczju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³⁵ jɑʊ̯⁵¹ kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁴ joek⁶ ho² gau³
    • Yale: mòuh yeuhk hó gau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴ joek⁹ ho² gau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴ yêg⁶ ho² geo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ jœːk̚² hɔː³⁵ kɐu̯³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bô-io̍h-khó-kiù
    • Tâi-lô: bô-io̍h-khó-kiù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boi'ioiqqoy'kiux
    • IPA (Taipei): /bo²⁴⁻¹¹ ioʔ⁴ kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ kiu¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɤ²³⁻³³ iɤʔ⁴ kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ kiu²¹/

Idiom

無藥可救

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

   他是個無藥可救的蘿莉控。 [MSC, trad.]
   他是个无药可救的萝莉控。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā shì ge wúyàokějiù de luólìkòng. [Pinyin]

   He is a hopeless lolicon.

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