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Dictionary lookup matches complete headwords and pronunciations, or words in English definitions. Other matching readings share an entry card. Related words and pinyin completions are available separately. General lexical entries precede names and historical references. Available frequency counts help order comparable matches.

Frequency data from Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. Counts describe written forms across their readings. A missing count is unknown.

毫不háo bù

hardly / not in the least / not at all

Headword or pronunciation毫不

是不是shì bu shì

is or is not (used to form yes-no questions)

Headword or pronunciation是不是

要不然yào bù rán

otherwise / or else / or

Headword or pronunciation要不然

不惜bù xī

not stint / not spare / not hesitate (to do sth) / not scruple (to do sth)

Headword or pronunciation不惜

何不hé bù

why not? / why not do (sth)?

Headword or pronunciation何不

忍不住rěn bu zhù

cannot help / unable to bear

Headword or pronunciation忍不住

不足bù zú

insufficient / lacking / deficiency / not enough / inadequate / not worth / cannot / should not

Headword or pronunciation不足

来不及lái bu jí

there's not enough time (to do sth) / it's too late

Headword or pronunciation来不及

不明bù míng

not clear / unknown / to fail to understand

Headword or pronunciation不明

不是bù shì

no / is not / not2 matching entries

Headword or pronunciation不是

不要紧bù yào jǐn

unimportant / not serious / it doesn't matter / never mind / it looks all right, but

Headword or pronunciation不要紧

迫不及待pò bù jí dài

(idiom) unable to hold oneself back / eager to do sth without delay

Headword or pronunciation迫不及待

不得bù dé

must not / may not / not to be allowed / cannot

Headword or pronunciation不得

想不到xiǎng bu dào

unexpected / hard to imagine / it had not occurred to me / who could have thought that

Headword or pronunciation想不到

要不yào bù

otherwise / or else / how about...? / either... (or...)

Headword or pronunciation要不

不光bù guāng

not the only one / not only

Headword or pronunciation不光

不怕bù pà

fearless / not worried (by setbacks or difficulties) / even if / even though

Headword or pronunciation不怕

行不通xíng bu tōng

won't work / will get (you) nowhere

Headword or pronunciation行不通

怪不得guài bu de

no wonder! / so that's why!

Headword or pronunciation怪不得

不良bù liáng

bad / harmful / unhealthy / (of a device, connection, material etc) defective / faulty

Headword or pronunciation不良

不但bù dàn

not only (... but also ...)

Headword or pronunciation不但

不满bù mǎn

dissatisfied / discontented / resentful / (before a number) to be less than

Headword or pronunciation不满

时不时shí bù shí

from time to time

Headword or pronunciation时不时

不至于bù zhì yú

unlikely to go so far as to / not as bad as

Headword or pronunciation不至于

不得了bù dé liǎo

desperately serious / disastrous / extremely / exceedingly

Headword or pronunciation不得了

不已bù yǐ

(used after a verb) endlessly / incessantly

Headword or pronunciation不已

过不去guò bu qù

to make life difficult for / to embarrass / unable to make it through

Headword or pronunciation过不去

不大bù dà

not very (clear, far away etc) / not too / not often / infrequently

Headword or pronunciation不大

好不容易hǎo bù róng yì

with great difficulty / very difficult

Headword or pronunciation好不容易

不怎么bù zěn me

not very / not particularly

Headword or pronunciation不怎么

不通bù tōng

to be obstructed / to be blocked up / to be impassable / to make no sense / to be illogical

Headword or pronunciation不通

从来不cóng lái bù

never

Headword or pronunciation从来不

不妥bù tuǒ

not proper / inappropriate

Headword or pronunciation不妥

不顾bù gù

in spite of / regardless of

Headword or pronunciation不顾

无处不在wú chù bù zài

to be everywhere

Headword or pronunciation无处不在

不知所措bù zhī suǒ cuò

not knowing what to do (idiom) / at one's wits' end / embarrassed and at a complete loss

Headword or pronunciation不知所措

不择手段bù zé shǒu duàn

by fair means or foul / by hook or by crook / unscrupulously

Headword or pronunciation不择手段

比不上bǐ bù shàng

can't compare with

Headword or pronunciation比不上

意想不到yì xiǎng bù dào

unexpected / previously unimagined

Headword or pronunciation意想不到

不可避免bù kě bì miǎn

(idiom) inevitable / unavoidable

Headword or pronunciation不可避免

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