難保

See also: 难保

Chinese

		disaster; distress; to scold disaster; distress; to scold; difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good	to defend; to protect; to insure or guarantee to defend; to protect; to insure or guarantee; to maintain; hold or keep; to guard
trad. (難保)		難	保
simp. (难保)		难	保

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): nánbǎo

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄢˊ ㄅㄠˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): naan⁴ bou²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): nàn-pó
Min Nan (POJ): lân-pó

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: nánbǎo
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄢˊ ㄅㄠˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nanbao
  - IPA ^(key): /na̠n³⁵ pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: naan⁴ bou²
  - Yale: nàahn bóu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: naan⁴ bou²
  - Guangdong Romanization: nan⁴ bou²
  - IPA ^(key): /nɑːn²¹ pou̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: nàn-pó
  - Hakka Romanization System: nanˇ bo`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: nan² bo³
  - IPA: /nan¹¹ po³¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lân-pó
  - Tâi-lô: lân-pó
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lanpoir
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lan²⁴⁻²² po⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lan²⁴⁻²² po⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lan¹³⁻²² po⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lan²⁴⁻¹¹ po⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lan²³⁻³³ pɤ⁴¹/

Verb

難保

(formal) to be difficult to ensure the safety of; to be difficult to protect

今天不好好工作，明天工作都難保。 [MSC, trad.]
今天不好好工作，明天工作都难保。 [MSC, simp.]
Jīntiān bù hǎohǎo gōngzuò, míngtiān gōngzuò dōu nánbǎo. [Pinyin]
If you don't work hard today, you may not have a job to come back to tomorrow.
(formal) to be unable to be guaranteed; to be difficult to guarantee

Derived terms

朝夕難保／朝夕难保 (zhāoxīnánbǎo)

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