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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

一文不值

yīwénbùzhí

worthless (idiom)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

worthless (idiom)

02

no use whatsoever

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 一文不值 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一文不值 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

那看似一文不值。nà kàn shì yī wén bù zhí。

It seems worthless.

他的看法真是一文不值。tā de kàn fǎ zhēn shì yī wén bù zhí。

His ideas never earned him a single penny.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 一文不值.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一文不值.

Directly before

  • 真是一文不值1
  • 看似一文不值1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 一文不值

What does 一文不值 mean in Chinese?

一文不值 (yīwénbùzhí) means worthless (idiom).

How do you pronounce 一文不值?

一文不值 is pronounced yīwénbùzhí.

Is 一文不值 an HSK word?

一文不值 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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