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扶不起的阿斗
Mandarin · pinyin fú bù qǐ de Ā dǒu
Meanings
- weak and inept person
- hopeless case
Characters in this entry
- 扶
- fú · support, help; protect; hold on
- 不
- bù · no, not; un-; negative prefix
- 起
- qǐ · rise, stand up; go up; begin
- 的
- de · possessive, adjectival suffix
- 阿
- ā · prefix for people's names; used in transliteration
- 斗
- dòu · dǒu · a dipper; unit of volume (ten 升 or litres); Kangxi radical 68; 8th lunar mansion, determinative star φ Sagittarii
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Mandarin tones
2–4–3–5–1–3 · fu2 bu4 qi3 de5 A1 dou3
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fu4 bat1 hei2 dik1 aa3 dau2
Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.