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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

不可开交

bùkěkāijiāo

to be awfully (busy etc)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to be awfully (busy etc)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 不可开交 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不可开交 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我们忙得不可开交。wǒ men máng dé bù kě kāi jiāo。

No published English translation for this sentence.

他们吵得不可开交,以至于没有专注于共同的理想。tā men chǎo dé bù kě kāi jiāo, yǐ zhì yú méi yǒu zhuān zhù yú gòng tóng de lǐ xiǎng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 不可开交.

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

Directly before

  • 得不可开交1
  • 吵得不可开交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 不可开交

What does 不可开交 mean in Chinese?

不可开交 (bùkěkāijiāo) means to be awfully (busy etc).

How do you pronounce 不可开交?

不可开交 is pronounced bùkěkāijiāo.

Is 不可开交 an HSK word?

不可开交 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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