隨便

See also: 随便

Chinese

		to follow; to comply with; to allow to follow; to comply with; to allow; surname	advantageous; cheap; ordinary advantageous; cheap; ordinary; plain; convenient; handy; easy; then; so; thus; to relieve oneself
trad. (隨便)		隨	便
simp. (随便)		随	便

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): suíbiàn

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˊ ㄅㄧㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi⁴ bin^6-2 / ceoi⁴ bin⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): sùi-phien

(Meixian, Guangdong): sui² piên⁴
Northern Min (KCR): sṳ̂-bīng
Eastern Min (BUC): sùi-*biêng
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): sûi-piān

(Teochew, Peng'im): sui⁵ biang⁶
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zoe-bi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: suíbiàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˊ ㄅㄧㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: suéibiàn
  - Wade–Giles: sui²-pien⁴
  - Yale: swéi-byàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sweibiann
  - Palladius: суйбянь (sujbjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯³⁵ pi̯ɛn⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: suíbiànr
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˊ ㄅㄧㄢˋㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: suéibiànr
  - Wade–Giles: sui²-pien⁴-ʼrh
  - Yale: swéi-byànr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sweibiall
  - Palladius: суйбяньр (sujbjanʹr)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯³⁵ pi̯ɑɻ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ceoi⁴ bin^6-2 / ceoi⁴ bin⁶
  - Yale: chèuih bín / chèuih bihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoey⁴ bin^6-2 / tsoey⁴ bin⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêu⁴ bin^6-2 / cêu⁴ bin⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵy̯²¹ piːn²²⁻³⁵/, /t͡sʰɵy̯²¹ piːn²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sùi-phien
  - Hakka Romanization System: sui^ˇ pien
  - Hagfa Pinyim: sui² pian⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /su̯i¹¹ pʰi̯en⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: sui² piên⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /suɪ¹¹ pʰiɛn⁵³/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: sṳ̂-bīng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sy³³ piŋ⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: sùi-*biêng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sui⁵³⁻²¹ piɛŋ²⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sûi-piān
  - Tâi-lô: suî-piān
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sui'pien
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sui²⁴⁻²² piɛn²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sui²⁴⁻²² piɛn⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sui¹³⁻²² piɛn²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /sui²⁴⁻¹¹ piɛn³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sui²³⁻³³ piɛn³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: sui⁵ biang⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sûi piăng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sui⁵⁵⁻¹¹ piaŋ³⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶zoe-bi
  - MiniDict: zoe^去 bi
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zoe-bi
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zø²² bi⁴⁴/

Adjective

隨便

casual; informal
random; careless; undisciplined; disorganised
(colloquial) easy (receptive to sexual advances)

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “casual”): 謹慎／谨慎 (jǐnshèn), 慎重 (shènzhòng)

Derived terms

隨隨便便／随随便便 (suísuíbiànbiàn)

Related terms

隨意／随意 (suíyì)

Verb

隨便

to do as one likes; to be up to (the other person)
隨便你。／随便你。 ― Suíbiàn nǐ. ― Up to you.

隨你便。／随你便。 ― Suí nǐ biàn. ― Up to you. / Whatever you like.

Synonyms

(Cantonese) 隨得／随得

Adverb

隨便

casually; without restraint or goal; as one pleases; at random
隨便坐。／随便坐。 ― Suíbiàn zuò. ― Take a seat wherever you like.

我只是隨便看看。 [MSC, trad.]
我只是随便看看。 [MSC, simp.]
Wǒ zhǐshì suíbiàn kànkàn. [Pinyin]
I am just looking.
- 亦都唔好將燃點咗嘅吹管呢懸掛喺氣樽罩上便，或者喺無人看管嘅情形下隨便擺放 [Cantonese, trad.]
  亦都唔好将燃点咗嘅吹管呢悬挂喺气樽罩上便，或者喺无人看管嘅情形下随便摆放 [Cantonese, simp.]
  From:
  (Can we date this quote?), 7:04 from the start, in 雷霆烈火 [Raging Fire]‎^[1], spoken by 華哥 (秦煌), 職業安全健康局 [Occupational Safety & Health Council]:
  jik⁶ dou¹ m⁴ hou² zoeng¹ jin⁴ dim² zo² ge³ ceoi¹ gun² ne¹ jyun⁴ gwaa³ hai² hei³ zeon¹ zaau³ soeng⁶ bin⁶, waak⁶ ze² hai² mou⁴ jan⁴ hon¹ gun² ge³ cing⁴ jing⁴ haa⁶ ceoi⁴ bin^6-2 baai² fong³ [Jyutping]
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 隨便 (“casually; as one pleases; at random”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		隨便
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	隨便
	Malaysia	隨便
	Singapore	隨便
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	隨便
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	隨便
Cantonese	Guangzhou	隨便, 是但, 求其
	Hong Kong	隨便, 是但, 求其
	Hong Kong (Kam Tin; Weitou)	隨便
	Macau	是但
	Guangzhou (Panyu)	是但, 隨便
	Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu)	是但
	Guangzhou (Conghua)	隨便
	Guangzhou (Zengcheng)	是但
	Foshan	是但, 隨便
	Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai)	是但
	Foshan (Shunde)	是但
	Foshan (Sanshui)	隨便
	Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming)	求其
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	是但
	Zhuhai (Qianshan, Xiangzhou)	是但
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	求其
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	是但, 隨便
	Jiangmen (Baisha)	是但
	Jiangmen (Xinhui)	求其, 是但
	Taishan	是但, 求其
	Kaiping (Chikan)	是但, 求其
	Enping (Niujiang)	求其, 是但
	Heshan (Yayao)	是但, 隨便
	Dongguan	隨便, 是但, 求其
	Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an)	是但
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	隨便
	Singapore (Guangfu)	隨便
Gan	Nanchang	隨便
Hakka	Meixian	隨便
	Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua)	隨便
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	隨便
	Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)	隨便
	Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)	隨便
	Guangzhou (Lütian, Conghua)	隨便
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	儘採
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	儘採
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	儘採
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	儘採
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	儘採
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	儘採
Huizhou	Jixi	隨便
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	隨便
Southern Min	Xiamen	凊彩
	Quanzhou	凊彩
	Anxi	凊彩
	Zhangzhou	凊彩
	Zhao'an	凊彩
	Dongshan	凊彩
	Tainan	凊彩
	Penang (Hokkien)	凊彩
	Singapore (Hokkien)	凊彩
	Manila (Hokkien)	凊彩
	Chaozhou	亂
	Shantou	亂, 凊彩
	Jieyang	亂, 凊彩
	Lufeng	凊彩
	Haifeng	凊彩
	Singapore (Teochew)	亂, 凊彩
	Singapore (Hainanese)	凊彩
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	是但, 求其
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	是但
Wu	Shanghai	隨便
	Danyang	隨便
	Jinhua	隨便
Xiang	Loudi	隨便

Conjunction

隨便

no matter (what, how, etc.); regardless of; whether

Synonyms

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不常在 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
不拘 (bùjū)
不管 (bùguǎn)
不論／不论 (bùlùn)
任憑／任凭 (rènpíng)
別管／别管 (biéguǎn)
勿怪 (⁸veq-kua) (Wu)
勿管 (⁸veq-kuoe) (Wu)
勿論／勿论 (⁸veq-len) (Wu)
憑／凭 (píng) (colloquial)
毋管
無管／无管 (wúguǎn) (literary or Min Nan)
無論／无论 (wúlùn)