不周

Chinese

		not; no	encircle; circuit; complete encircle; circuit; complete; lap; week; cycle; all; every; attentive; thoughtful
trad. (不周)		不	周
simp. #(不周)		不	周

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùzhōu

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄓㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ zau¹
• Hakka (Changting, Changting Pinyin): be² zheu¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-chiu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùzhōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄓㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùjhou
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-chou¹
    • Yale: bù-jōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bujou
    • Palladius: бучжоу (bučžou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ zau¹
    • Yale: bāt jāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ dzau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ zeo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Changting)
    • Changting Pinyin: be² zheu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pe²⁴ t͡ʃəɯ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-chiu
    • Tâi-lô: put-tsiu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putciw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡siu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡siu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ t͡siu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡siu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡siu⁴⁴/

Adjective

不周

1. incomplete; inattentive; unsatisfactory; inconsiderate; thoughtless

   考慮不周／考虑不周  ―  kǎolǜ bùzhōu  ―  inconsiderate; thoughtless; ill-conceived

2. (logic) undistributed; nondistributive

   中項不周／中项不周  ―  zhōngxiàng bùzhōu  ―  undistributed middle

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “inattentive”):

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• 周到 (zhōudào)
• 周密 (zhōumì)
• 嚴密 / 严密 (yánmì)
• 四序 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 審 / 审 (shěn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 細密 / 细密 (xìmì)
• 細緻 / 细致 (xìzhì)
• 綿密 / 绵密 (miánmì) (of speech, writing, etc.)
• 縝密 / 缜密 (zhěnmì)
• 過細 / 过细 (guòxì)

Noun

不周

1. (literary) northwesterly winds

Proper noun

不周

1. (Chinese mythology) Mount Buzhou

References

• 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “不周”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 21.