# 不錯
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Standard)
       (Pinyin): bùcuò
       (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄘㄨㄛˋ
    (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): буцуә (bucuə, I-III)
* Cantonese (Jyutping): bat$^1$ co$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): put-chhò
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bùcuò [Phonetic: búcuò]
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄘㄨㄛˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bùcuò
*** Wade–Giles: pu$^4$-tsʻo$^4$
*** Yale: bù-tswò
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: butsuoh
*** Palladius: буцо (buco)
*** Sinological IPA : /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ t͡sʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
** (Dungan)
*** Cyrillic and Wiktionary: буцуә (bucuə, I-III)
*** Sinological IPA : /pou²⁴ t͡sʰuə⁴⁴/
    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bat$^1$ co$^3$
*** Yale: bāt cho
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bat$^7$ tso$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bed$^1$ co$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɐt̚⁵ t͡sʰɔː³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: put-chhò
*** Tâi-lô: put-tshò
*** Phofsit Daibuun: putzhoix
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /put̚³²⁻⁵ t͡sʰo²¹/
*** IPA (Xiamen): /put̚³²⁻⁴ t͡sʰo²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /put̚⁵⁻²⁴ t͡sʰo⁴¹/

### Adjective

不錯
* correct; right
    你說的不錯。／你说的不错。 ― Nǐ shuō de bùcuò. ― What you said is right.
* (informal) not bad; pretty good
       Nǐ zhōngwén shuō dé bùcuò. [Pinyin]
       Your Chinese is not bad.
    你眼光不錯嘛。／你眼光不错嘛。 ― Nǐ yǎnguāng bùcuò ma. ― You have good taste.
    他筆底下不錯。／他笔底下不错。 ― Tā bǐdǐxia bùcuò. ― He writes well.
       Zhè zhǔyì tīngqǐlai bùcuò. [Pinyin]
       That sounds like a good idea.

#### Usage notes

Usually used predicatively. However, in Taiwanese Mandarin, this word may be used before a verb due to the usage of the equivalent words 𣍐歹／𫧃歹 or 𣍐䆀／𫧃䆀 in Hokkien, e.g. 不錯看／不错看 (bùcuò kàn, “quite good to watch”) instead of 看起來不錯／看起来不错.

#### Synonyms

* (correct): (Cantonese) 冇錯／冇错; (Hakka) 無差／无差
* (not bad):
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 不錯 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Taiwan | 不錯 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 不錯, 不賴 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Malaysia | 不錯 |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Singapore | 不錯 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 不孬, 不錯, 不賴 |
| Jiaoliao Mandarin | Yantai (Muping) | 不糙 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 不錯, 不賴, 不孬 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Wanrong | 不差 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xi'an | 不錯 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xining | 不錯 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Xuzhou | 不孬, 不賴 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 不錯 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Lanzhou | 不錯 |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Ürümqi | 不錯 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Wuhan | 不錯 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Guiyang | 不錯 |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Liuzhou | 不錯 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 不錯 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Yangzhou | 不錯, 不醜 |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nantong | 不錯 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 唔錯, 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong | 唔錯, 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Macau | 幾好, 唔錯 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Panyu) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Conghua) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou (Zengcheng) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Foshan | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Shunde) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Sanshui) | 唔錯 |
| Cantonese | Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Zhongshan (Shiqi) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Zhuhai (Doumen) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Jiangmen (Baisha) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Jiangmen (Xinhui) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Taishan | 唔錯, 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Kaiping (Chikan) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Enping (Niujiang) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Heshan (Yayao) | 唔錯, 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Dongguan | 唔錯, 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an) | 幾好 |
| Cantonese | Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) | 唔錯 |
| Cantonese | Singapore (Guangfu) | 唔錯, 幾好 |
| Gan | Pingxiang | 不錯 |
| Hakka | Yudu | 不錯 |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 不錯 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 不賴 |
| Jin | Xinzhou | 不賴 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 𣍐差 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 無呆 |
| Eastern Min | Fuqing | 也有好 |
| Eastern Min | Matsu | 無呆 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 𣍐歹 |
| Southern Min | Quanzhou | 𣍐歹, 洽食 |
| Southern Min | Shishi | 𣍐歹 |
| Southern Min | Zhangzhou | 𣍐䆀 |
| Southern Min | Zhao'an | 𣍐䆀 |
| Southern Min | Taipei | 𣍐䆀 |
| Southern Min | Kaohsiung | 𣍐䆀 |
| Southern Min | Kinmen | 𣍐歹 |
| Southern Min | Penang (Hokkien) | 𣍐䆀, 𣍐歹 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hokkien) | 𣍐歹, 莫嫌𣍐歹 |
| Southern Min | Manila (Hokkien) | 𣍐歹 |
| Southern Min | Chaozhou | 𣍐孬 |
| Southern Min | Shantou | 𣍐孬 |
| Southern Min | Jieyang | 𣍐孬 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Teochew) | 𣍐歹, 𣍐孬 |
| Southern Min | Wenchang | 無錯 |
| Southern Min | Haikou | 無錯 |
| Southern Min | Qionghai | 無錯 |
| Southern Min | Singapore (Hainanese) | 無錯 |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 冇錯 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 勿錯, 勿推扳 |
| Wu | Shanghai (Chongming) | 弗推扳 |
| Wu | Suzhou | 勿錯 |
| Wu | Danyang | 弗錯 |
| Wu | Hangzhou | 不錯 |
| Wu | Ningbo | 勿錯 |
| Wu | Wenzhou | 不毛 |
| Wu | Jinhua | 弗㽺 |
| Xiang | Loudi | 不錯 |