猶未

Chinese

		as if; still	not yet; 8th earthly branch; 1–3 p.m.
trad. (猶未)		猶	未
simp. (犹未)		犹	未
alternative forms		野未 Quanzhou Hokkien 阿未 Teochew

Pronunciation

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): iáu-bē / iáu-bōe / iá-bē / iá-bōe / iá-bēr / iah-bē / iah-bōe / ah-bē / ah-bōe / á-bē / á-bōe

  (Teochew, Peng'im): a¹ bhuê⁷

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iáu-bē
    • Tâi-lô: iáu-bē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iaw'be
    • IPA (Taipei): /iau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be²²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iáu-bōe
    • Tâi-lô: iáu-buē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iaw'boe
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iau⁵³⁻⁴⁴ bue²²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iau⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bue³³/
  • (Hokkien: Jinjiang, Philippines, variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iá-bē
    • Tâi-lô: iá-bē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iafbe
    • IPA (Taipei): /ia⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be³³/
    • IPA (Jinjiang, Philippines): /ia⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ be⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iá-bōe
    • Tâi-lô: iá-buē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iafboe
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ia⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bue³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iá-bēr
    • Tâi-lô: iá-bēr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ia⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ bə⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iah-bē
    • Tâi-lô: iah-bē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iahbe
    • IPA (Taipei): /ia(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ be³³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iah-bōe
    • Tâi-lô: iah-buē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iahboe
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ia(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ bue³³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ah-bē
    • Tâi-lô: ah-bē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ahbe
    • IPA (Taipei): /a(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ be³³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ah-bōe
    • Tâi-lô: ah-buē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ahboe
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /a(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ bue³³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: á-bē
    • Tâi-lô: á-bē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: afbe
    • IPA (Taipei): /a⁵³⁻⁴⁴ be³³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: á-bōe
    • Tâi-lô: á-buē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: afboe
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /a⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ bue³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: a¹ bhuê⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: a buē
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /a³³⁻²³ bue¹¹/

Adverb

猶未

1. (Southern Min) not yet

   • 猶未交寅 [Hokkien, trad.]
     犹未交寅 [Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 2004, Derrick Lian (medicus.tk), 'Excue Me, U Spik Inglish?'

     á-bōe kau-în [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     single (lit. "not yet married")

Synonyms

• 還沒／还没 (háiméi)
• 未 (wèi)
• 仍未 (réngwèi)
• (literary) 尚未 (shàngwèi)
• (Cantonese) 仲未, 並未／并未 (bìngwèi)
• (Hakka) 吂曾, 吂識／吂识
• (Wu) 朆

Further reading

• “Entry #8621”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.