勿要

Chinese

		do not	important; vital; to want important; vital; to want; to be going to; must; demand; ask; request; coerce
trad. (勿要)		勿	要
simp. #(勿要)		勿	要
alternative forms		弗要

Pronunciation

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁸veq-iau; ⁶veq₈-iau

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• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁸veq-iau; ⁶veq₈-iau
    • MiniDict: veh^入 iau; veh^入 iau
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵veq-iau; ³veq₅-iau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /vəʔ¹¹ iɔ²³/, /vəʔ²² iɔ⁴⁴/

Verb

勿要 (Wu)

1. don't want
2. don't need to

   勿要客氣／勿要客气 [Shanghainese]  ―  ⁸veq-iau ⁷khaq-chi [Wugniu]  ―  you're welcome (literally: no need to be so polite)

3. do not; don't (as an imperative)

   儂勿要交我講得個。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
   侬勿要交我讲得个。 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   ⁶non ⁸veq-iau ¹kau-ngu ⁵kaon-teq-gheq [Wugniu]

   You don't need to tell me/It's fine if you don't tell me.

4. To indicate an undesirably or unexpectedly large degree or amount.

   勿要忒好 [Shanghainese]  ―  ⁸veq-iau ⁷theq ⁵hau [Wugniu]  ―  Almost too good

5. To indicate that an action or circumstance is undesirable to the speaker.

   常怕今朝勿要落雨噢。 [Shanghainese, trad. and simp.]

   ⁶zan-pho ¹cin-tsau ⁸veq-iau ⁸loq ⁶yu-au [Wugniu]

   Hopefully it does not rain today.

   儂一把洋傘勿要落垃學堂裡𠲎。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
   侬一把洋伞勿要落垃学堂里𠲎。 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   ⁶non ⁷iq-po ⁶yan-se ⁸veq-iau ⁸loq-laq ⁸ghoq-daon-li ⁰va [Wugniu]

   Surely you haven't left your umbrella at school, have you?

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		勿, 莫1, 毋, 無
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		別, 不要, 勿, 別要 chiefly Hong Kong
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	別, 別價
	Taiwan	別, 不要
	Harbin	別
	Malaysia	不要
	Singapore	不要
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	別, 別價, 甭價, 不要
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	別
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	嫑, 甭1, 休
	Wanrong	嫑, 不要
	Xi'an	嫑, 不敢
	Xining	嫑
	Xuzhou	嫑, 休
Lanyin Mandarin	Lanzhou	不要
	Ürümqi	嫑
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	莫1, 不要, 嫑
	Wuhan	莫1, 不
	Guiyang	不要
	Guilin	莫1
	Liuzhou	莫1, 莫要
	Xiangtan (Jiangnan Industries Group koine)	莫1
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	不要
	Yangzhou	莫1, 不要
	Hefei	別, 不要
Cantonese	Guangzhou	咪, 咪個, 唔好
	Hong Kong	咪, 唔好, 冇
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	唔好
	Macau	唔要
	Foshan (Shunde)	咪
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	咪
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	唔好
	Taishan	唔好
	Kaiping (Chikan)	唔好
	Dongguan	咪, 唔好
	Shaoguan	咪
	Yunfu	咪, 唔好
	Yangjiang	莫1, 無好
	Xinyi	毛
	Lianjiang	冇
	Nanning	冇要
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	咪
	Singapore (Guangfu)	咪, 唔好
Gan	Nanchang	莫1
	Lichuan	毋要, 不要
	Pingxiang	不要
Hakka	Meixian	莫1, 毋愛, 毋好
	Xingning	毋愛
	Huidong (Daling)	毋好
	Shaoguan (Qujiang)	毋好
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	毋好
	Changting	毋要
	Liancheng	毋要
	Ninghua	毋要
	Yudu	毋要, 毋敢
	Ruijin	毋要
	Shicheng	毋要
	Shangyou (Shexi)	毋要
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	毋好
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	毋好
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	毋好
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	毋好
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	毋好
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	毋好
	Hong Kong	毋好
	Sabah (Longchuan)	毋愛
	Senai (Huiyang)	毋好
	Kuching (Hepo)	唔愛
Huizhou	Jixi	不要, 嫑
	Shexian	不要, 嫑
	Huangshan (Tunxi)	不要, 嫑
Jin	Taiyuan	不要, 不敢
	Xinzhou	不要, 嫑, 播
Northern Min	Jian'ou	伓敢, 伓讓, 毋
	Pucheng (Shibei)	伓敢
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	伓通, 毋
	Fuqing	伓通
	Matsu	毋
Southern Min	Xiamen	毋通, 毋愛, 莫2, 𱰠, 莫用, 汰
	Quanzhou	毋通, 毋愛, 甭2, 莫用, 汰
	Zhangzhou	毋通, 莫2, 甭2, 𱰠, 莫用, 汰
	Zhao'an	孬
	Taipei	莫2
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	莫去
	Kaohsiung	莫2
	Yilan	毋通, 莫2
	Changhua (Lukang)	莫2
	Tainan	莫2, 甭2
	Penang (Hokkien)	莫2, 毋通, 甭2
	Singapore (Hokkien)	莫2, 毋通, 甭2
	Manila (Hokkien)	毋通, 甭2
	Pingnan (Shangdu)	別
	Chaozhou	孬, 莫2
	Shantou	孬, 莫2
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	莫2
	Jieyang	孬, 莫2
	Haifeng	莫2
	Ho Chi Minh City (Teochew)	孬
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	孬
	Penang (Teochew)	莫2
	Singapore (Teochew)	莫2, 孬
	Leizhou	無地
	Haikou	無用, 莫2, 無莫
	Qionghai	無用
	Singapore (Hainanese)	無用
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	冇要
Wu	Shanghai	勿要, 𧟰
	Shanghai (Chongming)	拗
	Suzhou	𧟰
	Wuxi	𧟰
	Nantong (Haimen)	拗, 拗要, 弗要
	Danyang	弗要, 𫸻
	Hangzhou	嫑
	Hangzhou (Yuhang)	弗要, 消, 𧟰
	Ningbo	莫, 甮
	Wenzhou	𧟰
	Lishui	⿰毋樂
	Qingyuan	⿰否樂
	Jinhua	𫸻, 弗要, 弗用
Xiang	Changsha	莫1, 不要
	Loudi	不要, 莫1
	Shuangfeng	莫1
	Quanzhou	別

Dialectal synonyms of 別 (“do not”) [map]

Derived terms

• 勿要客氣／勿要客气
• 勿要廉恥／勿要廉耻

 

See also

• 𧟰, 覅, 𡠍, 𫸻