# 不吉
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bùjí
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bat$^1$ gat$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-kiat / put-kit
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bùjí
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bùjí
*** Wade–Giles: pu$^4$-chi$^2$
*** Yale: bù-jí
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bujyi
*** Palladius: буцзи (buczi)
*** Sinological IPA : /pu⁵¹ t͡ɕi³⁵/
*** Homophones: [Show/Hide]$^{edit}$不及 不吉 布吉 簿籍
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bat$^1$ gat$^1$
*** Yale: bāt gāt
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bat$^7$ gat$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bed$^1$ ged$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɐt̚⁵ kɐt̚⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Sanxia)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-kiat
*** Tâi-lô: put-kiat
*** Phofsit Daibuun: putkiad
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ kiɛt̚³²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ kiɛt̚⁵/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-kit
*** Tâi-lô: put-kit
*** Phofsit Daibuun: putkid
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ kit̚³²/
* Middle Chinese: pjut kjit
Rime :
| Character | 不 | 吉 |
| Reading # | 3/3 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 物 (60) | 質 (48) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 分勿切 | 居質切 |
| Baxter | pjut | kjit |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /pɨut̚/ | /kiɪt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /piut̚/ | /kit̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /piuət̚/ | /kjet̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /put̚/ | /kit̚/ |
| Li Rong | /piuət̚/ | /kiĕt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /pĭuət̚/ | /kĭĕt̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /pi̯uət̚/ | /ki̯ĕt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | fu | ji |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fat$^1$ | gat$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*pə C.qi[t]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*pɯ' klid/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 不 | 吉 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | bù | jí |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ pjuw › | ‹ kjit › |
| Old Chinese | /*pə/ | /*C.qi[t]/ (*C.q- > *k-, escaping palatalization) |
| English | not | auspicious |
| 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 | 不 | 吉 |
| Reading # | 3/3 | 1/1 |
| No. | 1048 | 5692 |
| Phonetic component | 不 | 吉 |
| Rime group | 物 | 質 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 弗 | 吉 |
| Old Chinese | /*pɯ'/ | /*klid/ |
| Notes | 中古才促化 | 甲文象供品在口表神佑吉利 |

### Adjective

不吉
* inauspicious; ominous; unlucky

### Noun

不吉
* (Sanxia Hokkien) little finger

#### Synonyms

| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 小指 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Beijing | 小拇指, 小拇哥兒, 小拇指頭, 小拇指頭兒, 小拇手指頭 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 小指, 小拇指 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Ulanhot | 小拇指 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Tongliao | 小拇指 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Chifeng | 小拇指, 小拇指頭, 小拇哥, 小妞妞兒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Hulunbuir (Hailar) | 小拇指 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 小拇哥, 小拇哥兒 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Shenyang | 小拇手指頭, 小指, 小拇指 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Tianjin | 小拇哥兒 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Tangshan | 小拇指, 小拇指頭 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Cangzhou | 小拇指, 小拇哥兒 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Baoding | 小拇哥兒 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Shijiazhuang | 小拇指頭兒 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 小拇指, 小門手指頭, 小門指頭 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 小拇指頭, 小拇指 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Qingdao | 小拇指頭兒, 小拇指頭 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 小拇指頭 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 小面手圪頭 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Zhengzhou | 小拇指頭 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 小門指頭, 小門指, 碎門指頭, 碎門指 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 尕拇指頭兒, 尕拇哥兒 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 小拇哥兒, 小拇哥, 小拇指頭, 小拇指 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) | 小拇尕尕, 小拇尕兒, 尕拇指, 尕拇指頭, 尕拇指頭子 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Masanchin (Shaanxi Dungan) | 小拇尕尕 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 小拇指 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Bayanhot | 小拇嘎 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Lanzhou | 尕拇指頭, 尕拇指, 尕拇舅舅, 小拇指頭 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 尕拇指頭, 小拇指頭 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 幺指拇兒, 幺指拇, 小指拇兒, 小指拇, 指拇兒, 𨈓巴兒, 𨈓指拇兒, 𨈓巴根兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chongqing | 幺指拇兒 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 小指甲 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 小指拇, 小指頭, 拉巴 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Kunming | 小拇指 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guilin | 小指媽 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 小指, 咩指崽, 小拇指 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 小拇指, 小指抹頭, 小指頭, 五馬指, 小寶寶 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 小指, 小麻指, 小麻指頭 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nantong | 小拇指頭 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Hefei | 小末爪子, 小末爪, 小末指, 小指拇頭子 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 手指尾, 尾指 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 手指尾, 尾指 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) | 手指尾 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou) | 手指尾, 尾指 |
| Cantonese | Macau | 手指尾 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Panyu) | 手指尾 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu) | 手指孻 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Conghua) | 手指孻 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Zengcheng) | 孻尾指 |
| Cantonese | Foshan | 手指尾 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai) | 尾指 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Shunde) | 手指尾 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Sanshui) | 手指尾 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming) | 手指尾 |
| Cantonese | Zhongshan (Shiqi) | 手指尾 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou) | 手指尾 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka) | 手指尾 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Doumen) | 手指尾 |
| Cantonese | Jiangmen (Baisha) | 尾指 |
| Cantonese | Jiangmen (Xinhui) | 尾指 |
| Cantonese | Taishan | 尾指, 尾指奴 |
| Cantonese | Kaiping (Chikan) | 尾指 |
| Cantonese | Enping (Niujiang) | 尾指 |
| Cantonese | Heshan (Yayao) | 手指尾 |
| Cantonese | Dongguan | 手指仔, 手指尾, 手指孻 |
| Cantonese | Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an) | 手指孻 |
| Cantonese | Yangjiang | 手指尾 |
| Cantonese | Nanning | 尾指 |
| Cantonese | Wuzhou | 尾指 |
| Cantonese | Yulin | 細手指, 尾指, 尾手 |
| Cantonese | Hepu (Lianzhou) | 尾指 |
| Cantonese | Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) | 手指尾 |
| Gan | Nanchang | 小拇指頭, 小拇指頭子 |
| Gan | Lichuan | 小手節 |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 細手指腦 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Xingning | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua) | 手指仔 |
| Hakka | Huidong (Daling) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Dongguan (Qingxi) | 獵尾指 |
| Hakka | Shenzhen (Shatoujiao) | 尾指, 手指仔 |
| Hakka | Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Heyuan (Bendihua) | 手指子 |
| Hakka | Wengyuan | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Shaoguan (Qujiang) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang) | 手指仔 |
| Hakka | Liannan | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua) | 孻尾指 |
| Hakka | Jiexi | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Luhe | 尾指 |
| Hakka | Zhao'an (Xiuzhuan) | 手指子 |
| Hakka | Changting | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Wuping | 蟻公手指 |
| Hakka | Wuping (Yanqian) | 尾手指 |
| Hakka | Wuping (Pingyu) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Liancheng | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Ninghua | 尾手指 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 尾手指 |
| Hakka | Ningdu | 細腦公公 |
| Hakka | Ruijin | 尾手指 |
| Hakka | Shicheng | 尾腦手指 |
| Hakka | Shangyou (Shexi) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Tonggu (Sandu) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Ganzhou (Panlong) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Dayu | 手指尾哩 |
| Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 手指尾, 尾指 |
| Hakka | Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 尾指, 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Hong Kong | 臘尾指 |
| Hakka | Yangxi (Tangkou) | 手尾孻 |
| Hakka | Yangchun (Sanjia) | 孻尾指 |
| Hakka | Xinyi (Sihe) | 手指仔 |
| Hakka | Gaozhou (Xindong) | 手尾孻 |
| Hakka | Maoming (Shalang, Dianbai) | 尾孻指 |
| Hakka | Huazhou (Xin'an) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Lianjiang (Shijiao) | 孻指 |
| Hakka | Lianjiang (Qingping) | 手孻雞 |
| Hakka | Mengshan (Xihe) | 滿手仔 |
| Hakka | Luchuan | 手尾 |
| Hakka | Luchuan (Daqiao) | 小指 |
| Hakka | Sabah (Longchuan) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Senai (Huiyang) | 手指尾 |
| Hakka | Singkawang | 手指尾 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 細指頭 |
| Huizhou | Shexian | 小指 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 小拇指頭 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 小拇指頭, 五拇指頭 |
| Jin | Taibus (Baochang) | 小拇指 |
| Jin | Linhe | 小拇勾, 小拇指頭子 |
| Jin | Jining | 小拇勾勾, 小拇指 |
| Jin | Hohhot | 小拇哥兒, 小拇指頭 |
| Jin | Baotou | 小拇勾勾 |
| Jin | Dongsheng | 小拇指 |
| Jin | Haibowan | 小拇指 |
| Jin | Zhangjiakou | 小拇指頭, 小拇哥兒 |
| Jin | Handan | 小拇指, 小拇指頭 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 尾指仔 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 尾掌指, 尾指 |
| Eastern Min | Fuqing | 尾掌指 |
| Eastern Min | Matsu | 尾指 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 尾指仔, 尾仔指 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen (Tong'an) | 尾指仔 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 尾指仔 |
| Southern Min | Jinjiang | 尾指 |
| Southern Min | Yongchun | 尾指囝 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 尾指仔, 尾仔指, 尾掌指 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou (Changtai) | 尾指仔 |
| Southern Min | Zhao'an | 細掌頭仔 |
| Southern Min | Taipei | 尾指, 尾掌頭仔 |
| Southern Min | New Taipei (Sanxia) | 不吉 |
| Southern Min | Kaohsiung | 尾指 |
| Southern Min | Yilan | 尾指, 尾掌指仔 |
| Southern Min | Changhua (Lukang) | 尾指, 尾指仔 |
| Southern Min | Taichung | 尾掌頭仔, 尾掌指, 尾掌指仔 |
| Southern Min | Taichung (Wuqi) | 尾指仔 |
| Southern Min | Tainan | 尾掌指仔, 煞尾指 |
| Southern Min | Taitung | 尾掌頭仔 |
| Southern Min | Hsinchu | 尾指, 尾指仔 |
| Southern Min | Kinmen | 尾指仔 |
| Southern Min | Penghu (Magong) | 尾抅仔, 尾指 |
| Southern Min | Longyan | 後尾指仔 |
| Southern Min | Pingnan (Shangdu) | 小指 |
| Southern Min | Chaozhou | 尾指囝 |
| Southern Min | Shantou | 指尾囝 |
| Southern Min | Shantou (Chenghai) | 指尾囝 |
| Southern Min | Jieyang | 手尾指, 指尾囝, 指尾指 |
| Southern Min | Haifeng | 尾指 |
| Southern Min | Bangkok (Teochew) | 尾指 |
| Southern Min | Johor Bahru (Teochew) | 尾指 |
| Southern Min | Leizhou | 煞尾手囝 |
| Southern Min | Wenchang | 煞尾手囝 |
| Southern Min | Haikou | 細手囝, 孧手囝, 煞尾手囝 |
| Southern Min | Qionghai | 妚尾 |
| Zhongshan Min | Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi) | 孻指 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 細手指 |
| Northern Pinghua | Guilin (Dahe) | 細手指頭 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 小節頭, 小拇指, 小手節頭, 小米節頭 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 小節頭 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 小密節頭 |
| Wu | Danyang | 小拇指頭 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 小拇手指頭 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 小指末頭 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 瑣蠻指頭兒 |
| Wu | Jinhua | 小手拇執頭 |
| Xiang | Changsha | 細指腦, 細指拇, 小指腦, 小指腦子, 小指拇, 滿指拇 |
| Xiang | Shuangfeng | 細手指腦 |
| Xiang | Hengyang | 滿手腦 |
| Xiang | Quanzhou | 滿指頭 |

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 不 | 吉 |
| ふ Grade: 4 | きつ Grade: S |
| goon | kan'on |

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) ふきつ [fùkítsú] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [ɸɯ̟̊kʲit͡sɨ]

### Adjective

不(ふ)吉(きつ) • (fukitsu) -na (adnominal 不(ふ)吉(きつ)な (fukitsu na), adverbial 不(ふ)吉(きつ)に (fukitsu ni))
* inauspicious, ominous

#### Inflection

Stem forms :
| Imperfective (未然形) | 不吉だろ | ふきつだろ | fukitsu daro |
| Continuative (連用形) | 不吉で | ふきつで | fukitsu de |
| Terminal (終止形) | 不吉だ | ふきつだ | fukitsu da |
| Attributive (連体形) | 不吉な | ふきつな | fukitsu na |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 不吉なら | ふきつなら | fukitsu nara |
| Imperative (命令形) | 不吉であれ | ふきつであれ | fukitsu de are |
| Key constructions ||||
| Informal negative | 不吉ではない 不吉じゃない | ふきつではない ふきつじゃない | fukitsu de wa nai fukitsu ja nai |
| Informal past | 不吉だった | ふきつだった | fukitsu datta |
| Informal negative past | 不吉ではなかった 不吉じゃなかった | ふきつではなかった ふきつじゃなかった | fukitsu de wa nakatta fukitsu ja nakatta |
| Formal | 不吉です | ふきつです | fukitsu desu |
| Formal negative | 不吉ではありません 不吉じゃありません | ふきつではありません ふきつじゃありません | fukitsu de wa arimasen fukitsu ja arimasen |
| Formal past | 不吉でした | ふきつでした | fukitsu deshita |
| Formal negative past | 不吉ではありませんでした 不吉じゃありませんでした | ふきつではありませんでした ふきつじゃありませんでした | fukitsu de wa arimasen deshita fukitsu ja arimasen deshita |
| Conjunctive | 不吉で | ふきつで | fukitsu de |
| Conditional | 不吉なら（ば） | ふきつなら（ば） | fukitsu nara (ba) |
| Provisional | 不吉だったら | ふきつだったら | fukitsu dattara |
| Volitional | 不吉だろう | ふきつだろう | fukitsu darō |
| Adverbial | 不吉に | ふきつに | fukitsu ni |
| Degree | 不吉さ | ふきつさ | fukitsusa |

### Noun

不(ふ)吉(きつ) • (fukitsu)
* bad luck, inauspiciousness

### References

* ↑ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Second edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō
* ↑ Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN
* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

## Korean

Hanja in this term :
| 不 | 吉 |

### Noun

不吉 • (bulgil) (hangeul 불길)
* hanja form of 불길 (“bad luck, inauspiciousness”)