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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不合时宜
out of step with current thinking
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
out of step with current thinking
02
outmoded
03
inappropriate for the occasion
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不合时宜 actually appears in real sentences.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不合时宜.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不合时宜.
Directly before
- 及不合时宜1
- 把不合时宜1
Directly after
- 不合时宜的2
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 不合时宜
What does 不合时宜 mean in Chinese?
不合时宜 (bùhéshíyí) means out of step with current thinking.
How do you pronounce 不合时宜?
不合时宜 is pronounced bùhéshíyí.
Is 不合时宜 an HSK word?
不合时宜 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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