三不五時

Chinese

		three	not; no	five	o'clock; time; when o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period
trad. (三不五時)		三	不	五	時
simp. (三不五时)		三	不	五	时

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sānbùwǔshí

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄢㄅㄨˋ ㄨˇ ㄕˊ
Min Nan (POJ): sam-put-gō͘-sî / sam-put-gǒ͘-sî

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: sānbùwǔshí
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄢㄅㄨˋ ㄨˇ ㄕˊ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sanbuwuushy
  - IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ pu⁵¹ u²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sam-put-gō͘-sî
  - Tâi-lô: sam-put-gōo-sî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: samputgoxsii
  - IPA (Taipei): /sam⁴⁴⁻³³ put̚³²⁻⁴ gɔ³³⁻¹¹ ɕi²⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sam⁴⁴⁻²² put̚³²⁻⁴ gɔ²²⁻²¹ ɕi²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sam⁴⁴⁻³³ put̚³²⁻⁴ gɔ³³⁻²¹ ɕi²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sam⁴⁴⁻²² put̚³²⁻⁵ gɔ²²⁻²¹ ɕi¹³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sam-put-gǒ͘-sî
  - Tâi-lô: sam-put-gǒo-sî
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sam³³ put̚⁵⁻²⁴ gɔ²² ɕi²⁴/

Idiom

三不五時

(Min Nan, Taiwanese Mandarin) sometimes; from time to time; occasionally; now and then
- 她說：「剃頭不好看；我要做菜姑。三不五時還可以去看歌仔戲、歌劇。」 [Taiwanese Mandarin, trad.]
  她说：“剃头不好看；我要做菜姑。三不五时还可以去看歌仔戏、歌剧。” [Taiwanese Mandarin, simp.]
  From: 2005 December 20, 釋悟因, 戰後佛教在台灣——佛教面對現代挑戰的回應, in 香光莊嚴雜誌, issue 84, page 19
  Tā shuō: “Tìtóu bù hǎokàn; wǒ yào zuò càigū. Sānbùwǔshí hái kěyǐ qù kàn gēzǐxì, gējù.” [Pinyin]
  She said, "Shaving the head bald doesn't look good; I want to be a vegetarian Buddhist. From time to time I can even go see operas."

Synonyms

隔三差五 (gésānchàwǔ)

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