唔好

Chinese

		hold in mouth; bite; (Cant.) no/not	good; well; be fond of
trad. (唔好)		唔	好
simp. #(唔好)		唔	好
alternative forms		毋好 Hakka

Pronunciation

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): m⁴ hou²

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): mau²

• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): m² hau³ / m² mau³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: m⁴ hou²
    • Yale: m̀h hóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: m⁴ hou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: m⁴ hou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /m̩²¹ hou̯³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: mau²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ᵐbau⁵⁵/

Note: contraction of m3 hau2.

• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: m² hau³ / m² mau³
    • Sinological IPA: /m̩¹¹ hau³¹/, /m̩¹¹ mau³¹/

Verb

唔好

1. (Cantonese, Hakka) don't
   • 1957, 王力, “穗語舉例（三）·血的教訓（續）”, in 廣東話淺說, 1st edition, 文字改革出版社, page 102:

     「呢，睇實佢行到呢處就唔見左嘞，我地入去搵吓先。唔好咁多人入去住。」 [Guangzhou Cantonese, trad.]
     「呢，睇实佢行到呢处就唔见左嘞，我地入去揾吓先。唔好咁多人入去住。」 [Guangzhou Cantonese, simp.]

     “ne^4-2, tai² sat⁶ keoi⁵ haang⁴ dou³ ni¹ syu³ zau⁶ m⁴ gin³ zo² laak³, ngo⁵ dei⁶ jap⁶ heoi³ wan² haa² sin¹. m⁴ hou² gam³ do¹ jan⁴ jap⁶ heoi³ zyu⁶.” [Jyutping]

     “I saw him come here and then disappear; we'll go in and look for a bit first. For now, don't everyone go in all at once.”

Synonyms

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

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

Descendants

• → Macanese: nê-bôm (calque)

Adjective

唔好

1. (Cantonese) no good; not good

See also

• 不好 (bùhǎo), (contraction) 冇 (mou2)