綿薄

Chinese

		cotton; incessant; soft cotton; incessant; soft; downy	thin; slight; meagre thin; slight; meagre; small; ungenerous; unkind; mean; frivolous; despise; belittle; to approach; to go near; peppermint
trad. (綿薄)		綿	薄
simp. (绵薄)		绵	薄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miánbó

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˊ ㄅㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): min⁴ bok⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): biân-po̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miánbó
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˊ ㄅㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miánbó
    • Wade–Giles: mien²-po²
    • Yale: myán-bwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mianbor
    • Palladius: мяньбо (mjanʹbo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛn³⁵ pu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: min⁴ bok⁶
    • Yale: mìhn bohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: min⁴ bok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: min⁴ bog⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːn²¹ pɔːk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: biân-po̍k
    • Tâi-lô: biân-po̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bienpok
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɛn¹³⁻²² pɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /biɛn²⁴⁻²² pɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /biɛn²⁴⁻²² pɔk̚⁴/

Noun

綿薄

1. (humble) (my) meager strength; humble effort