勢必

See also: 势必

Chinese

		power; force; tendency power; force; tendency; conditions; influence	certainly; must; will certainly; must; will; necessarily
trad. (勢必)		勢	必
simp. (势必)		势	必

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shìbì

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ ㄅㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sai³ bit¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sè-pit / sì-pit

  (Teochew, Peng'im): si³ big⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shìbì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄅㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shìhbì
    • Wade–Giles: shih⁴-pi⁴
    • Yale: shr̀-bì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhbih
    • Palladius: шиби (šibi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ pi⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sai³ bit¹
    • Yale: sai bīt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sai³ bit⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: sei³ bid¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯³³ piːt̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sè-pit
    • Tâi-lô: sè-pit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sea'pid
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /se⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ pit̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /se²¹⁻⁵³ pit̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sì-pit
    • Tâi-lô: sì-pit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sie'pid
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /si²¹⁻⁵³ pit̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: si³ big⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sì pik
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /si²¹³⁻⁵⁵ pik̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: syejH pjit

Rime
Character	勢	必
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	舒制切	卑吉切
Baxter	syejH	pjit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiᴇiH/	/piɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɛiH/	/pit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjæiH/	/pjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕiajH/	/pit̚/
Li Rong	/ɕiɛiH/	/piĕt̚/
Wang Li	/ɕĭɛiH/	/pĭĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ɛiH/	/pi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shì	bi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sai3	bat1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ̊et-s  pi[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hŋjeds  pliɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	勢	必
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shì	bì
Middle Chinese	‹ syejH ›	‹ pjit ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋ̊et-s/	/*pi[t]/
English	circumstances, setting	necessarily
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	勢	必
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	15089	568
Phonetic component	埶	必
Rime group	祭	質
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	丗	必
Old Chinese	/*hŋjeds/	/*pliɡ/

Adverb

勢必

1. surely; certainly

   • 今君乃亡趙走燕，燕畏趙，其勢必不敢留君，而束君歸趙矣。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     今君乃亡赵走燕，燕畏赵，其势必不敢留君，而束君归赵矣。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Jīn jūn nǎi wáng Zhào zǒu Yān, Yān wèi Zhào, qí shìbì bùgǎn liú jūn, ér shù jūn guī Zhào yǐ. [Pinyin]

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Synonyms

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• 一定 (yīdìng)
• 保準／保准 (bǎozhǔn) (colloquial)
• 保管 (bǎoguǎn)
• 保險／保险 (bǎoxiǎn) (dialectal)
• 定必 (ding⁶ bit¹) (Cantonese)
• 局 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 必定 (bìdìng)
• 必然 (bìrán)
• 決計／决计 (juéjì)
• 準保／准保 (zhǔnbǎo)
• 準定／准定 (zhǔndìng)
• 無疑／无疑 (wúyí)
• 硬額／硬额 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 肯定 (kěndìng)

 

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