三不時

Chinese

		three	from time to time; now and then; anytime from time to time; now and then; anytime; often; frequently
trad. (三不時)		三	不時
simp. (三不时)		三	不时

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sānbùshí

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄢㄅㄨˋ ㄕˊ
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): sâm-put-sṳ̀

(Meixian, Guangdong): sam¹ bud⁵ si²
Wu (Wiktionary): ¹se-peq-zr

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sānbùshí
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄢㄅㄨˋ ㄕˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sanbùshíh
  - Wade–Giles: san¹-pu⁴-shih²
  - Yale: sān-bù-shŕ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sanbushyr
  - Palladius: саньбуши (sanʹbuši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ pu⁵¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵/
Hakka
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sâm-put-sṳ̀
  - Hakka Romanization System: sam´ bud` siiˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: sam¹ bud⁵ si²
  - Sinological IPA: /sam²⁴ put̚² sɨ¹¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: sam¹ bud⁵ si²
  - Sinological IPA: /sam⁴⁴⁻³⁵ put̚¹ sz̩¹¹/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: ¹se-peq-zr
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /se̞⁵⁵ pəʔ³³ z̥z̩²¹/

Adverb

三不時

(dialectal, including Jianghuai Mandarin, Southern Sixian Hakka, Wu) often; from time to time
- 牽鑽鬼不想自己原是個鈍貨，反倒妒忌他起來，千方百計的暗損他：三不時在娘面前添枝換葉裝點他短處。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
  牵钻鬼不想自己原是个钝货，反倒妒忌他起来，千方百计的暗损他：三不时在娘面前添枝换叶装点他短处。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]
  From: Qing dynasty, 張南莊, 《何典》, chapter 5
  Qiānzuànguǐ bù xiǎng zìjǐ yuán shì ge dùnhuò, fǎndǎo dùjì tā qǐlái, qiānfāngbǎijì de ànsǔn tā: sānbùshí zài niáng miànqián tiānzhīhuànyè zhuāngdiǎn tā duǎnchù. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this example)
- 老鴇隨便啥事體先要去問俚，俚說那價是那價，還要三不時去拍拍俚馬屁末好。 [Wu, trad.]
  老鸨随便啥事体先要去问俚，俚说那价是那价，还要三不时去拍拍俚马屁末好。 [Wu, simp.]
  From: 1892, 韓邦慶 (Han Bangqing), 《海上花列傳》 (The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai), chapter 6
  (please add an English translation of this example)
- 有時過意不去　三不時不在家 [Sixian Hakka, trad.]
  有时过意不去　三不时不在家 [Sixian Hakka, simp.]
  From: 2015, 羅文裕 (Wing Lo), 菸樓清風
  yû-sṳ̀ ko-yi-m̀-hi, sâm-put-sṳ̀ mò thô vuk [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]
  Sometimes I'm feel sorry that I'm often not home

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 常常 (“often; frequently”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		經常, 時常, 常常, 時時, 往往, 每每
Mandarin	Beijing	常
	Taiwan	常常
	Jinan	常常, 常, 時常
	Xi'an	常常, 常, 時常
	Wuhan	帶常, 時常
	Chengdu	時常, 常常, 隨時
	Yangzhou	常
	Hefei	常
	Singapore	常常
Cantonese	Guangzhou	時時, 時常, 長時, 周時, 遇時
	Hong Kong	成日, 經常, 時時, 周時, 周不時
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	經常
	Yangjiang	周時
Gan	Nanchang	千常, 時常
Hakka	Meixian	輒常, 長時, 時常
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 登常, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	輒輒, 長在, 輒常, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	輒輒, 常勻, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	輒輒, 不時, 輒, 恬恬, 長透, 時時
	Hong Kong	長日
Huizhou	Jixi	三不時
Jin	Taiyuan	常常, 時常
Min Dong	Fuzhou	稠稠, 稠, 盡稠
Min Nan	Xiamen	定定, 長長, 四常, 時常, 常常, 不時, 不期時
	Quanzhou	定定, 長長, 四常, 時常, 常常, 不時
	Zhangzhou	定定, 時常, 常常, 不時, 不期時
	Tainan	定定, 時常, 常常, 不時, 捷捷, 沓沓, 常在, 往往
	Manila (Hokkien)	定定, 常常, 四常, 不時
	Chaozhou	長時, 惦惦
	Shantou	經常, 時常, 時時, 惦惦
	Bangkok (Teochew)	惦惦
Wu	Shanghai	三不時
	Shanghai (Chongming)	千常
	Suzhou	時常, 常時, 常樁
	Ningbo	老老, 老長 rare, 長常 rare, 長時 rare
	Wenzhou	清清, 常期
Xiang	Changsha	練常, 打常, 扯常, 扯常子
Xiang	Shuangfeng	練常, 常常

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