不停

Chinese

		not; no	to stop; to halt; to park (a car)
simp. and trad. (不停)		不	停

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùtíng

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄊㄧㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ ting⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): put-thêng

(Teochew, Peng'im): bug⁴ têng⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùtíng
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄊㄧㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùtíng
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-tʻing²
  - Yale: bù-tíng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: butyng
  - Palladius: бутин (butin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ tʰiŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ ting⁴
  - Yale: bāt tìhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ ting⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ ting⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ tʰɪŋ²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-thêng
  - Tâi-lô: put-thîng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putteeng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ tʰiɪŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ tʰiɪŋ¹³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ tʰiɪŋ²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bug⁴ têng⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: puk thêng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /puk̚²⁻⁴ tʰeŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

不停

to not stop; to be endless; to be ceaseless; to be incessant; to be nonstop
我忙了大半天了，活兒就不停地來；可逮著了個空兒歇會兒！ [dialectal Mandarin, trad.]
我忙了大半天了，活儿就不停地来；可逮着了个空儿歇会儿！ [dialectal Mandarin, simp.]
Wǒ máng le dàbàntiān le, huór jiù bùtíng de lái; kě děi zháo le ge kòngr xiē huǐr! [Pinyin]
I was busy all day, and the work just keeps coming; I finally could get hold of some time to rest a little!

Usage notes

Used chiefly as a complement after a verb.

Synonyms

不休 (bùxiū)
不倒 (bùdǎo) (literary)
不已 (bùyǐ)
不斷／不断 (bùduàn)
不迭 (bùdié)
延延 (yányán) (literary)
延續／延续 (yánxù)
持續／持续 (chíxù)
接 (jiē)
接續／接续 (jiēxù)
秉承 (bǐngchéng)
繼／继 (jì)
繼承／继承 (jìchéng)
繼續／继续 (jìxù)

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