不敏

Chinese

not; no keen; sensitive
simp. and trad.
(不敏)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 3/3 1/1
Initial () (1) (4)
Final () (60) (44)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter pjut minX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pɨut̚/ /mˠiɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/piut̚/ /mᵚinX/
Shao
Rongfen
/piuət̚/ /mienX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/put̚/ /mjinX/
Li
Rong
/piuət̚/ /mjĕnX/
Wang
Li
/pĭuət̚/ /mǐĕnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/pi̯uət̚/ /mi̯ĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fu mǐn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fat1 man5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mǐn
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjuw › ‹ minX ›
Old
Chinese
/*pə/ /*mrə[n]ʔ/ (~ *mrəʔ)
English not diligent, active

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
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3 1/2 2/2
No. 1025 1029 1048 9296 9297
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 1 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pɯ/ /*pɯʔ/ /*pɯ'/ /*mrɯʔ/ /*mrɯŋʔ/
Notes

Adjective

不敏

  1. (literary, sometimes humble) not clever