不足

Chinese

		not; no	foot; to be sufficient
simp. and trad. (不足)		不	足

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùzú

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄗㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ zuk¹

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): put-chiuk

  (Hailu, HRS): bud ziug

  (Meixian, Guangdong): bud⁵ jiug⁵

  (Changting, Changting Pinyin): be² ziu²

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): put-chiok

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bug⁴ zog⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùzú
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄗㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùzú
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-tsu²
    • Yale: bù-dzú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: butzwu
    • Palladius: буцзу (buczu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ t͡su³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 不足 步卒 部族 部卒 步足

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: bat¹ zuk¹
    • Yale: bāt jūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ dzuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ zug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ t͡sʊk̚⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 不足 筆觸 / 笔触

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: put-chiuk
    • Hakka Romanization System: bud^ˋ jiug^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: bud⁵ jiug⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /put̚² t͡si̯uk̚²/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: bud ziug
    • Sinological IPA: /put⁵⁻² t͡siuk⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: bud⁵ jiug⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /put̚¹ t͡ɕiʊk̚¹/
  • (Changting)
    • Changting Pinyin: be² ziu²
    • Sinological IPA: /pe²⁴ t͡siəɯ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-chiok
    • Tâi-lô: put-tsiok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putciog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡siɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡siɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ t͡siɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡siɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡siɔk̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bug⁴ zog⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: puk tsok
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puk̚²⁻⁴ t͡sok̚²/

Adjective

不足

1. insufficient; inadequate; lacking

Synonyms

• 不滿／不满 (bùmǎn)
• 貧乏／贫乏 (pínfá)

Noun

不足

1. inadequacy; deficiency; dearth; shortage; want; lack; not enough

   計劃因資金不足而流產。 [MSC, trad.]
   计划因资金不足而流产。 [MSC, simp.]

   Jìhuà yīn zījīn bùzú ér liúchǎn. [Pinyin]

   The plan fell through due to a shortage of funding.

Synonyms

• (figurative) 缺口 (quēkǒu)

Verb

不足

1. to be inadequate; to be deficient; to have a shortage

   金額不足／金额不足  ―  jīn'é bùzú  ―  insufficient balance

2. to be less than
3. (literary) not worth ... ; no need to ...

   • 杞小微，其事不足稱述。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     杞小微，其事不足称述。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Qǐ xiǎowēi, qí shì bùzú chēngshù. [Pinyin]

     Qi was too small; its affairs are not worth narrating.

4. (literary) cannot

Synonyms

• (to be inadequate):

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• 不夠 / 不够 (bùgòu)
• 不敷 (bùfū) (literary)
• 不滿 / 不满 (bùmǎn)
• 乏達 / 乏达 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 匱乏 / 匮乏 (kuìfá)
• 欠 (qiàn)
• 欠缺 (qiànquē)
• 短少 (duǎnshǎo)
• 短缺 (duǎnquē)
• 絕乏 / 绝乏 (juéfá) (literary)
• 缺乏 (quēfá)
• 缺如 (quērú) (literary)
• 缺少 (quēshǎo)
• 缺欠 (quēqiàn)
• 缺缺 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 虧 / 亏 (kuī)
• 貧 / 贫 (pín) (literary, or in compounds)
• 闕乏 / 阙乏 (quēfá) (literary)
• 闕如 / 阙如 (quērú) (literary)

• (not worth): (Min Nan) 無夠額／无够额

Derived terms

• 不足之處 / 不足之处 (bùzúzhīchù)
• 不足掛齒 / 不足挂齿 (bùzúguàchǐ)
• 不足為奇 / 不足为奇 (bùzúwéiqí)
• 不足為怪 / 不足为怪 (bùzúwéiguài)
• 不足為訓 / 不足为训 (bùzúwéixùn)
• 不足輕重 / 不足轻重 (bùzúqīngzhòng)
• 不足道 (bùzúdào)
• 心有餘而力不足 / 心有余而力不足 (xīn yǒuyú ér lì bùzú)
• 成事不足，敗事有餘 / 成事不足，败事有余 (chéngshì bùzú, bàishì yǒuyú)
• 注意力不足過動症 / 注意力不足过动症 (zhùyìlì bùzú guòdòngzhèng)
• 睡眠不足 (shuìmián bùzú)
• 美中不足 (měizhōngbùzú)

References

• 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “不足”, 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.