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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不太好
not so good
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
not so good
02
not too well
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不太好 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不太好 appears in 45 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I have the blues today.
Tom didn't sleep very well last night.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不太好.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不太好.
Directly before
- 得不太好5
- 心情不太好3
- 感觉不太好3
- 听力不太好2
- 服务不太好1
Directly after
- 不太好用2
- 不太好吧2
- 不太好的1
- 不太好看耶1
- 不太好解释1
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 不太好
What does 不太好 mean in Chinese?
不太好 (bùtàihǎo) means not so good.
How do you pronounce 不太好?
不太好 is pronounced bùtàihǎo.
Is 不太好 an HSK word?
不太好 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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