不聞不問

Chinese

		not; no	hear; news; celebrated hear; news; celebrated; sniff at	not; no	to ask
trad. (不聞不問)		不	聞	不	問
simp. (不闻不问)		不	闻	不	问
Literally: “to neither hear nor question”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùwénbùwèn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄣˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ man⁴ bat¹ man⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùwénbùwèn [Phonetic: bùwénbúwèn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄣˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄨㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùwúnbùwùn
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-wên²-pu⁴-wên⁴
    • Yale: bù-wén-bù-wèn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buwenbuwenn
    • Palladius: бувэньбувэнь (buvɛnʹbuvɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ wən³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ wən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ man⁴ bat¹ man⁶
    • Yale: bāt màhn bāt mahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ man⁴ bat⁷ man⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ men⁴ bed¹ men⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ mɐn²¹ pɐt̚⁵ mɐn²²/

Idiom

不聞不問

1. to not bother to ask or to listen; to show no interest in; to be indifferent to