何必

Chinese

		carry; what; how carry; what; how; why; which	certainly; must; will certainly; must; will; necessarily
simp. and trad. (何必)		何	必

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hébì

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄅㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ho⁴ bit¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hò-pit
Min Nan (POJ): hô-pit / hô͘-pit

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hébì
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄅㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hébì
  - Wade–Giles: ho²-pi⁴
  - Yale: hé-bì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: herbih
  - Palladius: хэби (xɛbi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ pi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ho⁴ bit¹
  - Yale: hòh bīt
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ho⁴ bit⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: ho⁴ bid¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔː²¹ piːt̚⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hò-pit
  - Hakka Romanization System: hoˇ bid`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ho² bid⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /ho¹¹ pit̚²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô-pit
  - Tâi-lô: hô-pit
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoi'pid
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ho²⁴⁻²² pit̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ho²⁴⁻¹¹ pit̚³²/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ho¹³⁻²² pit̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ²³⁻³³ pit̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô͘-pit
  - Tâi-lô: hôo-pit
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ho'pid
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Philippines): /hɔ²⁴⁻²² pit̚⁵/

Middle Chinese: /ɦɑ piɪt̚/

Rime
Character	何	必
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)	眞 (48)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	胡歌切	卑吉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑ/	/piɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑ/	/pit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑ/	/pjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦa/	/pit̚/
Li Rong	/ɣɑ/	/piĕt̚/
Wang Li	/ɣɑ/	/pĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɑ/	/pi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hé	bi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ho⁴	bat¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤaj pi[t]/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːl pliɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	何	必
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hé	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ ha ›	‹ pjit ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁaj/	/*pi[t]/
English	what	necessarily
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	何	必
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	7458	568
Phonetic component	可	必
Rime group	歌	質
Rime subdivision	1	2
Corresponding MC rime	何	必
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːl/	/*pliɡ/

Adverb

何必

(in rhetorical questions) why; why on earth (i.e. there is no need); why bother
他已不愛你，何必呢？ [MSC, trad.]
他已不爱你，何必呢？ [MSC, simp.]
Tā yǐ bù ài nǐ, hébì ne? [Pinyin]
He doesn't love you anymore, so what's the point?

Synonyms

何乜苦 (Min Nan)
何得苦 (Min Nan)
何苦 (hékǔ)
敢著／敢着 (Min Nan)

甲著／甲着 (Min Nan)
何苦來／何苦来 (hékǔlái)
何須／何须 (héxū) (literary)

Derived terms

何必當初／何必当初
既有今日，何必當初／既有今日，何必当初 (jìyǒu jīnrì hébì dāngchū)

早知今日，何必當初／早知今日，何必当初 (zǎozhī jīnrì, hébì dāngchū)

References

“Entry #2902”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Korean

Hanja in this term
何	必

Adverb

何必 • (hapil) (hangeul 하필)

Hanja form^? of 하필 (“of all things”).

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