不用

See also: 甭

Chinese

		not; no	to use
simp. and trad. (不用)		不	用

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùyòng

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄩㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ jung⁶
Min Nan (POJ): put-iōng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùyòng [Phonetic: búyòng]
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄩㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùyòng
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-yung⁴
  - Yale: bù-yùng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buyonq
  - Palladius: буйун (bujun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ jung⁶
  - Yale: bāt yuhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ jung⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ yung⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ jʊŋ²²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-iōng
  - Tâi-lô: put-iōng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: put'iong
  - IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ iɔŋ²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ iɔŋ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ iɔŋ²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ iɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ iɔŋ³³/

Adverb

不用

not necessary; don't; no need to
不用道歉，我不會接受。 [MSC, trad.]
不用道歉，我不会接受。 [MSC, simp.]
Bùyòng dàoqiàn, wǒ bùhuì jiēshòu. [Pinyin]
Don’t apologize. I won’t accept it.

這是我管的事，你就不用考慮了。 [MSC, trad.]
这是我管的事，你就不用考虑了。 [MSC, simp.]
Zhè shì wǒ guǎn de shì, nǐ jiù bùyòng kǎolǜ le. [Pinyin]
I'm taking care of it — you don't need to worry about it.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 不用 (“need not”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		不必, 無須, 毋庸
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		不必, 毋須, 無須, 無須乎, 不待
Mandarin	Beijing	甭, 不用, 甭用
	Taiwan	不用
	Shenyang	甭
	Jinan	甭
	Xi'an	不用
	Wuhan	不消, 用不著
	Chengdu	不消
	Kunming	不用
	Yangzhou	用不著
	Hefei	不用
	Malaysia	不用
	Singapore	不用, 不必
Cantonese	Guangzhou	唔使
	Hong Kong	唔使
	Macau	唔使
	Taishan	唔使, 冇使
	Dongguan	唔使
	Yangjiang	無使, 使乜
	Hepu (Lianzhou)	冇使
	Hepu (Shatian)	冇使
	Beihai	冇使
	Beihai (Nankang)	冇使
	Beihai (Yingpan)	冇使
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô)	冇使
	Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)	冇使
	Fangchenggang (Fangcheng)	冇使
	Singapore (Guangfu)	唔使
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	唔使
Gan	Nanchang	不消, 用不著
Hakka	Meixian	唔使
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	唔使
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	唔使
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	唔使
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	唔使
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	唔使
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	唔使
	Kuching (Hepo)	唔使
Jin	Taiyuan	不用
Min Bei	Jian'ou	伓讓
Min Dong	Fuzhou	伓使
	Matsu	伓使
	Singapore (Fuqing)	伓使
Min Nan	Xiamen	毋免, 免, 毋使
	Quanzhou	毋免, 免
	Zhangzhou	毋免, 免, 毋使
	Taipei	毋免, 免
	Kaohsiung	毋免, 免
	Penang (Hokkien)	毋免, 免
	Singapore (Hokkien)	毋免, 免
	Manila (Hokkien)	毋免, 免
	Chaozhou	免, 免用
	Shantou	免, 免用
	Shantou (Chenghai)	免
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	免
	Jieyang	免, 免用
	Singapore (Teochew)	免
	Pontianak (Teochew)	免
	Wenchang	無用
	Singapore (Hainanese)	無用
Wu	Shanghai	勿要
	Suzhou	用勿著
	Wenzhou	覅用, 否用
Xiang	Changsha	不消
Xiang	Shuangfeng	不消, 不要

Derived terms

不用客氣／不用客气 (bùyòng kèqì)
不用說／不用说 (bùyòngshuō)
不用謝／不用谢 (bùyòngxiè)

更不用說／更不用说 (gèng bùyòng shuō)
無所不用其極／无所不用其极 (wú suǒ bùyòng qí jí)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
不	用
ふ Grade: 4	よう Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

不 (“non-”) +‎ 用 (“use”)

For pronunciation and definitions of 不用 – see the following entry.

【不要ふよう】

[adjective] unnecessary

[adjective] useless

[adjective] unused

[noun] being unnecessary

[noun] uselessness

[noun] being unused

(This term, 不用, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Derived terms

不用器官
不用品

References

2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

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