不可理喻

Chinese

		cannot; should not; must not	to reason
trad. (不可理喻)		不可	理喻
simp. #(不可理喻)		不可	理喻

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùkělǐyù

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧˇ ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ ho² lei⁵ jyu⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-khó-lí-jū / put-khó-lí-lū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùkělǐyù [Phonetic: bùkélǐyù]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧˇ ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùkělǐyù
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-kʻo³-li³-yü⁴
    • Yale: bù-kě-lǐ-yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bukeeliiyuh
    • Palladius: букэлиюй (bukɛlijuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹ y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ ho² lei⁵ jyu⁶
    • Yale: bāt hó léih yuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ ho² lei⁵ jy⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ ho² léi⁵ yu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ hɔː³⁵ lei̯¹³ jyː²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-khó-lí-jū
    • Tâi-lô: put-khó-lí-jū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putqoylyju
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ li⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zu³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-khó-lí-lū
    • Tâi-lô: put-khó-lí-lū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putqoylylu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lu²²/

Idiom

不可理喻

1. to defy reason; to be unreasonable because of stupidity or stubbornness

   做一件不可理喻的事 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   zuò yī jiàn bùkělǐyù de shì [Pinyin]

   to do something that defies reason

   簡直不可理喻。／简直不可理喻。  ―  Jiǎnzhí bùkělǐyù.  ―  It is utterly unreasonable.