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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

不到

bùdào

not to arrive

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

not to arrive

02

not reaching

03

insufficient

04

less than

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 不到 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不到 appears in 153 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

您可能找不到。nín kě néng zhǎo bú dào。

You might not find it.

我几乎听不到你。wǒ jī hū tīng bú dào nǐ。

I can hardly hear you.

我已经找不到回家的路。wǒ yǐ jīng zhǎo bú dào huí jiā de lù。

I already can't find the way home.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 不到.

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

Directly before

  • 找不到63
  • 做不到24
  • 听不到20
  • 见不到3
  • 有不到3

Directly after

  • 不到我16
  • 不到你11
  • 不到他11
  • 不到的4
  • 不到汤姆4
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 不到

What does 不到 mean in Chinese?

不到 (bùdào) means not to arrive.

How do you pronounce 不到?

不到 is pronounced bùdào.

Is 不到 an HSK word?

不到 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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