不可理喻

Chinese

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùkělǐyù

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧˇ ㄩˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ ho² lei⁵ jyu⁶
Min Nan (POJ): put-khó-lí-jū

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: bùkělǐyù [Phonetic: bùkélǐyù]
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧˇ ㄩˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bukeeliiyiw
  - IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ y⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ ho² lei⁵ jyu⁶
  - Yale: bāt hó léih yuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ ho² lei⁵ jy⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ ho² léi⁵ yu⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ hɔː³⁵ lei̯¹³ jyː²²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-khó-lí-jū
  - Tâi-lô: put-khó-lí-jū
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putqoylyju
  - IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zu²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ kʰo⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ li⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ d͡zu⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zu²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ d͡zu³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ li⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zu³³/

Idiom

不可理喻

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.

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