差不多

Chinese

		differ from; short of; to lack differ from; short of; to lack; poor; send; a messenger; a mission; to commission; uneven; difference; discrepancy; to differ; error; to err; to make a mistake	not; no	many; much; a lot of many; much; a lot of; numerous; multi-
simp. and trad. (差不多)		差	不	多

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chàbuduō

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄚˋ ˙ㄅㄨㄉㄨㄛ
Cantonese (Jyutping): caa¹ bat¹ do¹
Min Nan (POJ): chha-put-to

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: chàbuduō
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄚˋ ˙ㄅㄨㄉㄨㄛ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chahbu5duo
  - IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰa̠⁵¹ b̥u¹ tu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: caa¹ bat¹ do¹
  - Yale: chā bāt dō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsaa¹ bat⁷ do¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ca¹ bed¹ do¹
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑː⁵⁵ pɐt̚⁵ tɔː⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chha-put-to
  - Tâi-lô: tsha-put-to
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zha'putdoy
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰa⁴⁴⁻²² put̚³²⁻⁴ to⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰa³³ put̚⁵⁻²⁴ to³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰa⁴⁴⁻²² put̚³²⁻⁵ to⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ put̚³²⁻⁴ to⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰa⁴⁴⁻³³ put̚³²⁻⁴ tɤ⁴⁴/

Adjective

差不多

similar

這幾個電影都差不多。 [MSC, trad.]
这几个电影都差不多。 [MSC, simp.]
Zhè jǐ ge diànyǐng dōu chàbuduō. [Pinyin]
All these movies are pretty much the same.
not bad

Adverb

差不多

almost; nearly
- 無仝 ê新聞台，竟然 lóng 報導差不多仝款 ê 新聞內容，che 有影是不可思議 ê 現象。 [Taiwanese, trad.]
  无仝 ê新闻台，竟然 lóng 报导差不多仝款 ê 新闻内容，che 有影是不可思议 ê 现象。 [Taiwanese, simp.]
  From: 2005, anon., M̄-nā 無路用, 更加是阻礙!! (blog rant about poor news coverage: Not only is it not useful, it is a hindrance!)
  Bô-kâng ê sin-bûn-tâi, kéng-jiân lóng pò-tō chha-put-to kâng-khóan ê sin-bûn lāi-iông, che ū-iáⁿ sī put-khó-su-gī ê hiān-siōng. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
  Even different news stations all still report almost the same news content. This really is an incomprehensible phenomenon.
我們差不多高。 / 我们差不多高。 ― Wǒmen chàbuduō gāo. ― We are nearly the same height.

差不多一個年 / 差不多一个年 ― chàbuduō yīge nián ― almost a year

Interjection

差不多

(colloquial) sort of; kinda

See also

(Cantonese) 差唔多 (caa1 m4 do1)

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