Taivo A Taiwan Mandarin dictionary

不會

bùhuì

ㄅㄨˋ ㄏㄨㄟˋ

Simplified 不会

  1. 1improbable
  2. 2unlikely
  3. 3will not (act, happen etc)
  4. 4not able
  5. 5not having learned to do sth
  6. 6(coll.) (Tw) don't mention it
  7. 7not at all
In Taiwan

Besides its dictionary senses, the standard Taiwanese reply to 謝謝 — "not at all" — where a mainland speaker would say 不客氣 or 不用謝.

Example

謝謝你。不會,別客氣。

xièxie nǐ búhuì biékèqi

Thank you. — Not at all, don't mention it.

Keep 不會 and it comes back until you know it.

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