不肖

Chinese

		not; no	similar; resembling; to resemble similar; resembling; to resemble; to be like
trad. (不肖)		不	肖
simp. #(不肖)		不	肖
Literally: “unlike (one's parents)”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùxiào

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ ciu³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): put-seu
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-siàu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùxiào [Phonetic: búxiào]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄒㄧㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùsiào
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-hsiao⁴
    • Yale: bù-syàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bushiaw
    • Palladius: бусяо (busjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ ciu³
    • Yale: bāt chiu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ tsiu³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ qiu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ t͡sʰiːu̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: put-seu
    • Hakka Romanization System: bud^ˋ seu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bud⁵ seu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /put̚² seu̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-siàu
    • Tâi-lô: put-siàu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putsiaux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ siau²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ siau⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ siau²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ siau¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ siau²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: pjuw|pjuwX|pjut sjewH

Rime
Character	不	不	不	肖
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)	尤 (136)	物 (60)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Checked (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III	III	III
Fanqie	甫鳩切	方久切	分勿切	私妙切
Baxter	pjuw	pjuwX	pjut	sjewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨu/	/pɨuX/	/pɨut̚/	/siᴇuH/
Pan Wuyun	/piu/	/piuX/	/piut̚/	/siɛuH/
Shao Rongfen	/piəu/	/piəuX/	/piuət̚/	/sjæuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puw/	/puwX/	/put̚/	/siawH/
Li Rong	/piu/	/piuX/	/piuət̚/	/siɛuH/
Wang Li	/pĭəu/	/pĭəuX/	/pĭuət̚/	/sĭɛuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯ə̯u/	/pi̯ə̯uX/	/pi̯uət̚/	/si̯ɛuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fōu	fǒu	fu	xiào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fau1	fau2	fat1	siu3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pə  [s]ew|[s]ew-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pɯ|pɯʔ|pɯ'  slew|slews/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	不	不	肖	肖
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bù	bù	xiāo	xiào
Middle Chinese	‹ pjuw ›	‹ pjuw ›	‹ sjew ›	‹ sjewH ›
Old Chinese	/*pə/	/*pə/	/*[s]ew/	/*[s]ew-s/
English	not	不律 writing brush (pron. in Wú 吳 ap. Shuōwén; E. Hàn)	disappear	resemble
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	不	不	不	肖	肖
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3	1/2	2/2
No.	1025	1029	1048	13754	13755
Phonetic component	不	不	不	肖	肖
Rime group	之	之	物	宵	宵
Rime subdivision	0	0	1	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	不	缶	弗	宵	𥬇
Old Chinese	/*pɯ/	/*pɯʔ/	/*pɯ'/	/*slew/	/*slews/
Notes		象花柎與本同源	中古才促化	見莊子史記	從肉小會消瘠意， 小非聲，與後起從肉肖聲翟聲字同源

Adjective

不肖

1. (of a person) unworthy; unseemly; unpromising; dishonourable; of poor moral character
2. (literary, of a son) unlike one's father

Derived terms

• 不肖之徒
• 不肖子 (bùxiàozǐ)
• 不肖子孫 / 不肖子孙 (bùxiào zǐsūn)
• 不肖的東西 / 不肖的东西
• 趙不肖 / 赵不肖

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (不肖):

• → Japanese: 不(ふ)肖(しょう) (fushō)