# 辦法
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Standard)
       (Pinyin): bànfǎ
       (Zhuyin): ㄅㄢˋ ㄈㄚˇ
    (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): банфа (banfa, III-I)
* Cantonese (Jyutping): baan$^6$ faat$^3$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): phan-fap
    (Hailu, HRS): pan$^˖$ fab
    (Meixian, Guangdong): pan$^4$ fab$^5$
* Eastern Min (BUC): bâing-huák
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bang$^5$ hah$^6$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): pān-hoat
    (Teochew, Peng'im): bain$^7$ huab$^4$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$be-faq
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bànfǎ → bànfa (toneless final syllable variant)
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄈㄚˇ → ㄅㄢˋ ˙ㄈㄚ (toneless final syllable variant)
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bànfå
*** Wade–Giles: pan$^4$-fa$^5$
*** Yale: bàn-fa
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bann.faa
*** Palladius: баньфа (banʹfa)
*** Sinological IPA : /pän⁵¹ fä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ → /pän⁵¹ fä¹/
** (Dungan)
*** Cyrillic and Wiktionary: банфа (banfa, III-I)
*** Sinological IPA : /pæ̃⁴⁴ fa²⁴/
    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: baan$^6$ faat$^3$
*** Yale: baahn faat
*** Cantonese Pinyin: baan$^6$ faat$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ban$^6$ fad$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /paːn²² faːt̚³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phan-fap
*** Hakka Romanization System: pan fab$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: pan$^4$ fab$^5$
*** Sinological IPA: /pʰan⁵⁵ fap̚²/
** (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
*** Hakka Romanization System: pan$^˖$ fab
*** Sinological IPA: /pʰan³³ fap⁵/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: pan$^4$ fab$^5$
*** Sinological IPA: /pʰan⁵³⁻⁵⁵ fap̚¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: bâing-huák
*** Sinological IPA : /pɛiŋ²⁴²⁻⁵³ $^{(h-)}$ŋuɑʔ²⁴/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: bang$^5$ hah$^6$ [Phonetic: bang$^4$ hah$^6$]
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bāng-hah
*** Sinological IPA : /paŋ²¹⁻⁴² haʔ¹/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: bang$^5$ hah$^6$ [Phonetic: bang$^4$ hah$^6$]
*** Sinological IPA : /paŋ²¹⁻⁴² haʔ²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pān-hoat
*** Tâi-lô: pān-huat
*** Phofsit Daibuun: paxnhoad
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /pan⁴¹⁻²² huat̚⁵/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /pan³³⁻²¹ huat̚³²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /pan³³⁻¹¹ huat̚³²/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Singapore): /pan²²⁻²¹ huat̚³²/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: bain$^7$ huab$^4$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pāiⁿ huap
*** Sinological IPA : /pãĩ¹¹ huap̚²/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$be-faq
*** MiniDict: be$^去$ fah
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$be-faq
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /be²² faʔ⁴⁴/

### Noun

辦法
* means; solution; way (of doing something)
    明智的辦法／明智的办法 ― míngzhì de bànfǎ ― smart way
       Wǒ xiànzài méiyǒu bànfǎ gōngzuò. [Pinyin]
       There's no way I can work now.
       Tā kāishǐ zài xiǎng lìng yī ge bànfǎ bǎohù tā nǚ'ér de ānquán. [Pinyin]
       She had begun thinking of another way to ensure her daughter's safety.
       Hěn bàoqiàn, méiyǒu bànfǎ le. [Pinyin]
       I'm sorry it can't be helped.
       Wǒmen méiyǒu bànfǎ, duìbùqǐ. [Pinyin]
       We don't have a solution, sorry.

#### Usage notes

In Min Nan, this term tends to be used more often in a positive sense. Whereas in Mandarin, one says 沒辦法／没办法 (méi bànfǎ, “there is no way”), in Min Nan, one would usually say 無法度／无法度 (bô-hoat-tō͘).

#### Synonyms

* 主意
* 作法 (zuòfǎ)
* 做法 (zuòfǎ)
* 卯竅 / 卯窍 (mao$^3$ qiao$^4$) (Sichuanese)
* 套套 (tau$^3$ tau$^{3-2}$) (Jin, colloquial)
* 對策 / 对策 (duìcè)
* 工具 (gōngjù) (figurative)
* 手段 (shǒuduàn)
* 措施 (cuòshī)
* 方式 (fāngshì)
* 方法 (fāngfǎ)
* 步數 / 步数 (Hokkien)
* 法子 (colloquial)
* 法度 (Hokkien)
* 渠道 (qúdào)
* 竅門 / 窍门 (qiàomén)
* 竅門兒 / 窍门儿 (qiàoménr)
* 管道 (guǎndào) (figurative, especially of communication)
* 行法 (xíngfǎ) (literary)
* 訣竅 / 诀窍 (juéqiào)
* 訣要 / 诀要 (juéyào)
* 路子 (lùzi)
* 路徑 / 路径 (lùjìng)
* 蹊徑 / 蹊径 (xījìng) (literary, figurative)
* 途徑 / 途径 (tújìng)
* 進路 / 进路 (jìnlù)
* 道理 (dàolǐ)
* 道術 / 道术 (dàoshù) (literary)
* 道道 (dau$^3$ dau$^{3-2}$) (Jin)
* 門徑 / 门径 (ménjìng)
* 門路 / 门路 (ménlù)
* 門道 / 门道 (méndao)
* 門頭 / 门头 (méntóu) (literary, figurative)
* 頭路 / 头路 (tóulù) (colloquial)

#### Descendants

* → Bouyei: banqfaf
* → Zhuang: banhfap

## Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term :
| 辦 | 法 |

### Noun

辦法
* chữ Hán form of biện pháp (“method”).