會得

See also: 会得

Chinese

		to meet; to gather; group to meet; to gather; group; to assemble; association; be able to; be likely to; to balance an account; accounting	get; obtain; gain get; obtain; gain; proper; suitable; proud; contented; allow; permit; ready; finished; a sentence particle used after a verb to show effect; degree or possibility; to have to; must; ought to; to need to
trad. (會得)		會	得
simp. (会得)		会	得

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huìde

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟˋ ˙ㄉㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wui⁵ dak¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ē-tit / ě-tit / ě-lit

  (Teochew, Peng'im): oi⁶ dig⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵ue-teq₇; ⁶we-teq₇

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huìde
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟˋ ˙ㄉㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huèide̊
    • Wade–Giles: hui⁴-tê⁵
    • Yale: hwèi-de
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huey.de
    • Palladius: хуэйдэ (xuejdɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹ d̥ə¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wui⁵ dak¹
    • Yale: wúih dāk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wui⁵ dak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: wui⁵ deg¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːi̯¹³ tɐk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ē-tit
    • Tâi-lô: ē-tit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: exdid
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /e³³⁻²¹ tit̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /e³³⁻¹¹ tit̚³²/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /e²²⁻²¹ tit̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ě-tit
    • Tâi-lô: ě-tit
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /e²² tit̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ě-lit
    • Tâi-lô: ě-lit
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /e²² lit̚⁵/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: oi⁶ dig⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ŏi tik
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /oi³⁵⁻¹¹ tik̚²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵ue-teq₇; ⁶we-teq₇
    • MiniDict: ue^去 teh^入; we^去 teh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²ue-teq₄; ³hhue-teq₄
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ue³³ təʔ⁴⁴/, /ɦue²² təʔ⁴⁴/

Verb

會得

1. (literary, Southern Min, Northern Wu) can; to be able to; to be capable of

   憂鬱個「鬱」儂會得寫伐？ [Shanghainese, trad.]
   忧郁个「郁」侬会得写伐？ [Shanghainese, simp.]

   ¹ieu-ioq₇-gheq ⁷ioq ⁶non ⁶we-teq₇ ⁵shia-vaq₈ [Wugniu]

   Do you know how to write 鬱?

   • 1886, Lim Hiong Seng, Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press, page 46:

     爾今夜會得來或袂 Lṳ́ ke-mêⁿ õi-tit lâi a-bõi?

     汝今暝會得來亞𠁞？ [Teochew, trad.]
     汝今暝会得来亚𠀾？ [Teochew, simp.]

     le² gim¹ mê⁵ oi⁶ dig⁴ lai⁵ a¹ bhoi⁶? [Peng'im]

     Can you come to-night or not?

2. (literary, Northern Wu) to understand; to comprehend

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		可, 可以, 得
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		可, 可以, 得
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	可以
	Malaysia	可以
	Singapore	可以
Cantonese	Guangzhou	可以, 得 >
	Hong Kong	可以, 得 >
	Taishan	可以
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	可以
	Singapore (Guangfu)	可以
Gan	Nanchang	做得
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	做得
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	做得, 可以, 使得
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	做得
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	使得, 做得
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	做得
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	會用
	Kuching (Hepo)	做得
	Singapore (Dabu)	做得
Northern Min	Jian'ou	使得, 會使得
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	會使
Southern Min	Xiamen	會使, 會當, 會做, 會用, 會用得, 會得, 會得通, 會通, 通
	Quanzhou	會做, 會做得, 會用, 會用得, 會得, 會得通, 會通, 通
	Zhangzhou	會使, 會當, 會用, 會用得, 會得, 會得通, 會通, 通
	Taipei	會使, 會當
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	會使, 會當
	Kaohsiung	會用得, 會使, 會當
	Yilan	會使, 會當
	Changhua (Lukang)	會使, 會當
	Taichung	會用得, 會使得
	Tainan	會用得, 會使, 會當, 會得, 會得通, 通
	Hsinchu	會用得, 會使
	Kinmen	會使, 會當
	Penghu (Magong)	會使, 會當
	Penang (Hokkien)	會, 會使
	Singapore (Hokkien)	會使, 會做, 會用, 會得, 會當, 會通
	Manila (Hokkien)	會做, 會用, 會用得, 會做得
	Medan (Hokkien)	會使
	Chaozhou	可以
	Jieyang	好, 可以
	Haifeng	會得
	Singapore (Teochew)	會使, 會得
	Wenchang	可以
	Qionghai	可以
	Singapore (Hainanese)	可以
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	得
Wu	Shanghai	好, 可以
	Suzhou	好
	Ningbo	好
Xiang	Changsha	做得, 可以得
Note	> - used after the verb

Dialectal synonyms of 可以 (“can; may”) [map]

References

• “Entry #9635”, 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., 2025.