# 三不時
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): sānbùshí
    (Zhuyin): ㄙㄢ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˊ
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): sâm-put-sṳ̀
    (Meixian, Guangdong): sam$^1$ bud$^5$ si$^2$
* Wu (Northern, Wugniu): $^1$se-peq-zy / $^1$se-peq$_7$-zy$_2$ / $^1$sae-paq$_7$-zy$_2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: sānbùshí
*** Zhuyin: ㄙㄢ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sanbùshíh
*** Wade–Giles: san$^1$-pu$^4$-shih$^2$
*** Yale: sān-bù-shŕ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sanbushyr
*** Palladius: саньбуши (sanʹbuši)
*** Sinological IPA : /sän⁵⁵ pu⁵¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵/
* Hakka
** (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sâm-put-sṳ̀
*** Hakka Romanization System: sam$^ˊ$ bud$^ˋ$ sii$^ˇ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: sam$^1$ bud$^5$ si$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /sam²⁴ put̚² sɨ¹¹/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: sam$^1$ bud$^5$ si$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /sam⁴⁴⁻³⁵ put̚¹ sz̩¹¹/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$se-peq-zy
*** MiniDict: se$^平$ peh zy
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$se-peq-zr
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /se⁵⁵ pəʔ³³ zz̩²¹/
** (Northern: Suzhou)
*** Wugniu: $^1$se-peq$_7$-zy$_2$
*** MiniDict: se$^平$ peh$^入$ zy$^平$
*** Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /se⁴⁴ pəʔ⁴⁴ zz̩/
** (Northern: Ningbo)
*** Wugniu: $^1$sae-paq$_7$-zy$_2$
*** MiniDict: sae$^平$ pah$^入$ zy$^平$
*** Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /sɛ³³ pɐʔ⁵⁵ zz̩³¹/

### Adverb

三不時
* (dialectal, including Jianghuai Mandarin, Southern Sixian Hakka, Wu) often; from time to time
    From: Qing dynasty, 張南莊, 《何典》, chapter 5
    Qiānzuànguǐ bù xiǎng zìjǐ yuán shì ge dùnhuò, fǎndǎo dùjì tā qǐlái, qiānfāngbǎijì de ànsǔn tā: sānbùshí zài niáng miànqián tiānzhīhuànyè zhuāngdiǎn tā duǎnchù. [Pinyin]
    The petty-ghost, not regarding the possibility of he himself being slow, starts being jealous and tries to slander him nevertheless with numerous schemes: from time to time he would invent tall-tales to tell in front of their mother, what seemed to gild all his vices.
    From: 1892, 韓邦慶 (Han Bangqing), 《海上花列傳》 (The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai), chapter 6
    $^6$lau-pau$_3$ $^2$ze-bi$_6$ $^5$sa $^6$zy-thi$_3$ $^1$si $^5$iau $^5$chi $^6$men $^1$li $^1$li-seq$_7$ $^6$na-ka$_5$ $^6$zy $^6$na-ka$_5$ $^2$we-iau$_5$ $^1$se-peq$_7$-zy$_2$ $^5$chi $^7$phaq-phaq$_7$ $^1$li $^6$mo-phi$_5$-meq$_8$ $^3$hau [Wugniu]
    Come what may, she's always the first one who the pimp goes to for opinions: she's always the one who gets the final word, who he purposefully showers with flattery every so often.
    From: 2015, 羅文裕 (Wing Lo), 菸樓清風
    yû-sṳ̀ ko-yi-m̀-hi, sâm-put-sṳ̀ mò thô vuk [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]
    Sometimes I'm feel sorry that I'm often not home

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 經常, 時常, 常常, 時時, 往往, 每每 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 常 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 常常 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 時不見兒, 時不當, 時不當兒, 時不常, 時不常兒, 時不時 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 常常 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 常常, 常, 時常 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 常常, 常, 時常 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 時常, 常常, 隨時, 時不時 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 帶常, 時常 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 常 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hefei | 常 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 時時, 時常, 長時, 周時, 遇時, 時不時 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 成日, 經常, 時時, 好多時, 好多時候, 周時, 周不時 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) | 經常 |
| Cantonese | Yangjiang | 周時 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 千常, 時常 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 輒常, 長時, 時常, 時不時 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間, 經常 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 登常, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間, 經常 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 輒輒, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間, 經常 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 輒輒, 長在, 輒常, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 經常 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 輒輒, 常勻, 輒常, 長透, 常常, 時常, 不時, 時時, 長間, 經常 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 輒輒, 不時, 輒, 恬恬, 長透, 時時 |
| Hakka | Hong Kong | 長日 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 三不時, 時不時 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 常常, 時常, 時不時 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 稠稠, 稠, 盡稠 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 定定, 長長, 四常, 時常, 常常, 不時, 不期時 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 定定, 長長, 四常, 時常, 常常, 不時 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 定定, 時常, 常常, 不時, 不期時 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 定定, 時常, 常常, 不時, 捷捷, 沓沓, 常在, 往往 |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 定定, 常常, 四常, 不時 |
| Southern Min | Chaozhou | 長時, 惦惦 |
| Southern Min | Shantou | 經常, 時常, 時時, 惦惦 |
| Southern Min | Bangkok (Teochew) | 惦惦 |
| Southern Min | Leizhou | 長世, 長常 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 常樁, 常常, 經常 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 千常 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 時常, 常時, 常樁 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 老老, 老長 rare, 長常 rare, 長時 rare |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 清清, 常期 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 練常, 打常, 扯常, 扯常子, 時不時 |
| Xiang | Shuangfeng | 練常, 常常 |