不中用

Chinese

		not; no	to be useful; to be of use; to serve a purpose
simp. and trad. (不中用)		不	中用

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùzhōngyòng, bùzhòngyòng

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄓㄨㄥㄩㄥˋ, ㄅㄨˋ ㄓㄨㄥˋ ㄩㄥˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùzhōngyòng
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄓㄨㄥㄩㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùjhongyòng
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-chung¹-yung⁴
  - Yale: bù-jūng-yùng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bujongyonq
  - Palladius: бучжунъюн (bučžunʺjun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùzhòngyòng [Phonetic: búzhòngyòng]
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄓㄨㄥˋ ㄩㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùjhòngyòng
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-chung⁴-yung⁴
  - Yale: bù-jùng-yùng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bujonqyonq
  - Palladius: бучжунъюн (bučžunʺjun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ jʊŋ⁵¹/

Adjective

不中用

unfit; incapable
- 始皇聞亡，乃大怒曰：“吾前收天下書，不中用者盡去之。” [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
  始皇闻亡，乃大怒曰：“吾前收天下书，不中用者尽去之。” [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
  From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
  Shǐhuáng wén wáng, nǎi dànù yuē: “Wú qián shōu tiānxià shū, bùzhōngyòng zhě jìn qù zhī.” [Pinyin]
  When the First Emperor was informed of their flight he flew into a rage. “In the past, I confiscated all the writings within the empire and got rid of all those that were of no use.”
incapacitated
(euphemistic) dying; approaching death