# 樂不可支
## Chinese

| | | music; happy; laughmusic; happy; laugh; cheerful | cannot; should not; must not | (a measure word); to support; to sustain(a measure word); to support; to sustain; to erect; to raise; branch; division; to draw money |
| trad. (樂不可支) | trad. (樂不可支) | 樂 | 不可 | 支 |
| simp. (乐不可支) | simp. (乐不可支) | 乐 | 不可 | 支 |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lèbùkězhī
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄜˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄓ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): lok$^6$ bat$^1$ ho$^2$ zi$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lèbùkězhī
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄜˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄓ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lèbùkějhih
*** Wade–Giles: lê$^4$-pu$^4$-kʻo$^3$-chih$^1$
*** Yale: lè-bù-kě-jr̄
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lehbukeejy
*** Palladius: лэбукэчжи (lɛbukɛčži)
*** Sinological IPA : /lɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ pu⁵¹ kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: lok$^6$ bat$^1$ ho$^2$ zi$^1$
*** Yale: lohk bāt hó jī
*** Cantonese Pinyin: lok$^9$ bat$^7$ ho$^2$ dzi$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: log$^6$ bed$^1$ ho$^2$ ji$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɔːk̚² pɐt̚⁵ hɔː³⁵ t͡siː⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: lak pjut khaX tsye
Rime :
| Character | 樂 | 不 | 可 | 支 |
| Reading # | 3/3 | 3/3 | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) | 幫 (1) | 溪 (29) | 章 (23) |
| Final (韻) | 鐸 (103) | 物 (60) | 歌 (94) | 支 (11) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) | Rising (X) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Closed | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | III | I | III |
| Fanqie | 盧各切 | 分勿切 | 枯我切 | 章移切 |
| Baxter | lak | pjut | khaX | tsye |
| Reconstructions |||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /lɑk̚/ | /pɨut̚/ | /kʰɑ$^X$/ | /t͡ɕiᴇ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /lɑk̚/ | /piut̚/ | /kʰɑ$^X$/ | /t͡ɕiɛ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /lɑk̚/ | /piuət̚/ | /kʰɑ$^X$/ | /t͡ɕjɛ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /lak̚/ | /put̚/ | /kʰa$^X$/ | /ciə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /lɑk̚/ | /piuət̚/ | /kʰɑ$^X$/ | /t͡ɕie/ |
| Wang Li | /lɑk̚/ | /pĭuət̚/ | /kʰɑ$^X$/ | /t͡ɕǐe/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /lɑk̚/ | /pi̯uət̚/ | /kʰɑ$^X$/ | /t͡ɕie̯/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | luò | fu | kě | zhī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | lok$^6$ | fat$^1$ | ho$^2$ | zi$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤawk pə [k]ʰˤa[j]ʔ ke/
    (Zhengzhang): /*raːwɢ pɯ' kʰaːlʔ kje/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 樂 | 不 | 可 | 支 |
| Reading # | 2/4 | 1/2 | 1/1 | 1/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | lè | bù | kě | zhī |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ lak › | ‹ pjuw › | ‹ kha$^X$ › | ‹ tsye › |
| Old Chinese | /*[r]ˁawk/ | /*pə/ | /*[k]ʰˁa[j]ʔ/ | /*ke/ |
| English | joy; enjoy | not | may; acceptable | support, hold up |
| 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 | 樂 | 不 | 可 | 支 |
| Reading # | 2/3 | 3/3 | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 7673 | 1048 | 7446 | 17200 |
| Phonetic component | 樂 | 不 | 可 | 支 |
| Rime group | 藥 | 物 | 歌 | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 落 | 弗 | 可 | 支 |
| Old Chinese | /*raːwɢ/ | /*pɯ'/ | /*kʰaːlʔ/ | /*kje/ |
| Notes | | 中古才促化 | | |

### Idiom

樂不可支
* overjoyed; on cloud nine
    From: Yang Xiong, The Canon of Supreme Mystery, 2 BCE
    Cì èr: lèbùkězhī, chén yú tiān. Cè yuē: lèbùkězhī, yǐ shí suì yě. [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    From: The Book of the Later Han, circa 5th century CE
    Bǎixìng gē yuē: “Sāng wú fù zhī, màisuì liǎng qí. Zhāng jūn wèizhèng, lèbùkězhī.” [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)