不可理喻

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Chinese

		cannot; should not; must not	to reason
trad. (不可理喻)		不可	理喻
simp. ^#(不可理喻)		不可	理喻

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùkělǐyù

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧˇ ㄩˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bat¹ ho² lei⁵ jyu⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-khó-lí-jū / put-khó-lí-lū

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùkělǐyù [Phonetic: bùkélǐyù]
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧˇ ㄩˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùkělǐyù
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-kʻo³-li³-yü⁴
  - Yale: bù-kě-lǐ-yù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bukeeliiyuh
  - Palladius: букэлиюй (bukɛlijuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ li²¹⁴⁻²¹ y⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bat¹ ho² lei⁵ jyu⁶
  - Yale: bāt hó léih yuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bat⁷ ho² lei⁵ jy⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: bed¹ ho² léi⁵ yu⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐt̚⁵ hɔː³⁵ lei̯¹³ jyː²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-khó-lí-jū
  - Tâi-lô: put-khó-lí-jū
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putqoylyju
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ li⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ zu³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-khó-lí-lū
  - Tâi-lô: put-khó-lí-lū
  - Phofsit Daibuun: putqoylylu
  - IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ li⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lu²²/

Idiom

不可理喻

to defy reason; to be unreasonable because of stupidity or stubbornness
做一件不可理喻的事 [MSC, trad. and simp.]
zuò yī jiàn bùkělǐyù de shì [Pinyin]
to do something that defies reason

簡直不可理喻。／简直不可理喻。 ― Jiǎnzhí bùkělǐyù. ― It is utterly unreasonable.

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