不錯

See also: 不错

Chinese

		not; no	mistake; error; blunder mistake; error; blunder; fault; cross; uneven; wrong
trad. (不錯)		不	錯
simp. (不错)		不	错

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): bùcuò

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄘㄨㄛˋ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): буцуә (bucuə, I-III)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ co³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-chhò

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùcuò [Phonetic: búcuò]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄘㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùcuò
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-tsʻo⁴
    • Yale: bù-tswò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: butsuoh
    • Palladius: буцо (buco)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡sʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: буцуә (bucuə, I-III)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou²⁴ t͡sʰuə⁴⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bat¹ co³
    • Yale: bāt cho
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ tso³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ co³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ t͡sʰɔː³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-chhò
    • Tâi-lô: put-tshò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: putzhoix
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ t͡sʰo²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡sʰo²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡sʰo⁴¹/

Adjective

不錯

1. correct; right

   你說的不錯。／你说的不错。  ―  Nǐ shuō de bùcuò.  ―  What you said is right.

2. (informal) not bad; pretty good

   你中文說得不錯。 [MSC, trad.]
   你中文说得不错。 [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ zhōngwén shuō dé bùcuò. [Pinyin]

   Your Chinese is not bad.

   你眼光不錯嘛。／你眼光不错嘛。  ―  Nǐ yǎnguāng bùcuò ma.  ―  You have good taste.

   他筆底下不錯。／他笔底下不错。  ―  Tā bǐdǐxia bùcuò.  ―  He writes well.

   這主意聽起來不錯。 [MSC, trad.]
   这主意听起来不错。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè zhǔyì tīngqǐlai bùcuò. [Pinyin]

   That sounds like a good idea.

Usage notes

Usually used predicatively. However, in Taiwanese Mandarin, this word may be used before a verb due to the usage of the equivalent words 𣍐歹／𫧃歹 or 𣍐䆀／𫧃䆀 in Hokkien, e.g. 不錯看／不错看 (bùcuò kàn, “quite good to watch”) instead of 看起來不錯／看起来不错.

Synonyms

• (correct): (Cantonese) 冇錯／冇错; (Hakka) 無差／无差
• (not bad):

Dialectal synonyms of 不錯 (“not bad; pretty good”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		不錯
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	不錯
	Harbin	不錯, 不賴
	Malaysia	不錯
	Singapore	不錯
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	不孬, 不錯, 不賴
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	不糙
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	不錯, 不賴, 不孬
	Wanrong	不差
	Xi'an	不錯
	Xining	不錯
	Xuzhou	不孬, 不賴
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	不錯
	Lanzhou	不錯
	Ürümqi	不錯
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	不錯
	Guiyang	不錯
	Liuzhou	不錯
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	不錯
	Yangzhou	不錯, 不醜
	Nantong	不錯
Cantonese	Guangzhou	唔錯, 幾好
	Hong Kong	唔錯, 幾好
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin; Weitou)	幾好
	Macau	幾好, 唔錯
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	幾好
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	幾好
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	幾好
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	幾好
	Foshan	幾好
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	幾好
	Foshan (Shunde)	幾好
	Foshan (Sanshui)	唔錯
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	幾好
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	幾好
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	幾好
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	幾好
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	幾好
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	幾好
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	幾好
	Taishan	唔錯, 幾好
	Kaiping (Chikan)	幾好
	Enping (Niujiang)	幾好
	Heshan (Yayao)	唔錯, 幾好
	Dongguan	唔錯, 幾好
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	幾好
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	唔錯
	Singapore (Guangfu)	唔錯, 幾好
Gan	Pingxiang	不錯
Hakka	Yudu	不錯
Huizhou	Jixi	不錯
Jin	Taiyuan	不賴
	Xinzhou	不賴
Northern Min	Jian'ou	𣍐差
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	無呆
	Fuqing	也有好
	Matsu	無呆
Southern Min	Xiamen	𣍐歹
	Quanzhou	𣍐歹, 洽食
	Shishi	𣍐歹
	Zhangzhou	𣍐䆀
	Zhao'an	𣍐䆀
	Taipei	𣍐䆀
	Kaohsiung	𣍐䆀
	Kinmen	𣍐歹
	Penang (Hokkien)	𣍐䆀, 𣍐歹
	Singapore (Hokkien)	𣍐歹, 莫嫌𣍐歹
	Manila (Hokkien)	𣍐歹
	Chaozhou	𣍐孬
	Shantou	𣍐孬
	Jieyang	𣍐孬
	Singapore (Teochew)	𣍐歹, 𣍐孬
	Wenchang	無錯
	Haikou	無錯
	Qionghai	無錯
	Singapore (Hainanese)	無錯
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	冇錯
Wu	Shanghai	勿錯, 勿推扳
	Shanghai (Chongming)	弗推扳
	Suzhou	勿錯
	Danyang	弗錯
	Hangzhou	不錯
	Ningbo	勿錯
	Wenzhou	不毛
	Jinhua	弗㽺
Xiang	Loudi	不錯