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
Cantonese (Jyutping): saam¹ bat¹ ng⁵ si⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sâm-put-ńg-sṳ̀
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sam-put-gō͘-sî / sam-put-gǒ͘-sî

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sānbùwǔshí
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄢㄅㄨˋ ㄨˇ ㄕˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sanbùwǔshíh
  - Wade–Giles: san¹-pu⁴-wu³-shih²
  - Yale: sān-bù-wǔ-shŕ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sanbuwuushyr
  - Palladius: саньбууши (sanʹbuuši)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ pu⁵¹ u²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: saam¹ bat¹ ng⁵ si⁴
  - Yale: sāam bāt ńgh sìh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: saam¹ bat⁷ ng⁵ si⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: sam¹ bed¹ ng⁵ xi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːm⁵⁵ pɐt̚⁵ ŋ̍¹³ siː²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sâm-put-ńg-sṳ̀
  - Hakka Romanization System: sam´ bud` ng` siiˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: sam¹ bud⁵ ng³ si²
  - Sinological IPA: /sam²⁴ put̚² ŋ̍³¹ sɨ¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sam-put-gō͘-sî
  - Tâi-lô: sam-put-gōo-sî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: samputgoxsii
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sam⁴⁴⁻²² put̚³²⁻⁴ ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ si²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sam⁴⁴⁻³³ put̚³²⁻⁴ ɡɔ³³⁻²¹ si²³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /sam⁴⁴⁻³³ put̚³²⁻⁴ ɡɔ³³⁻¹¹ si²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sam⁴⁴⁻²² put̚³²⁻⁵ ɡɔ²²⁻²¹ si¹³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Philippines)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sam-put-gǒ͘-sî
  - Tâi-lô: sam-put-gǒo-sî
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sam³³ put̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡɔ²² si²⁴/
  - IPA (Jinjiang, Philippines): /sam³³ put̚⁵⁻²⁴ ɡɔ³³⁻²² si²⁴/

Idiom

三不五時

(Cantonese, Southern Min, Taiwanese Mandarin, Taiwanese Hakka) sometimes; from time to time; occasionally; now and then
- 一杯酒　兩角銀　三不五時嘛來鬥陣 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
  一杯酒　两角银　三不五时嘛来斗阵 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]
  From: 1997, 世界第一等, Andy Lau
  chi̍t poe chiú, nn̄g kak gîn, sam-put-gō͘-sî mā lâi tàu-tīn [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
  With a bottle of wine costing [only] twenty cents, lets get together every 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)
(Hakka) 三不二時／三不二时

References

“Entry #242”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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