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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不对劲
not in good condition
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
not in good condition
02
wrong
03
fishy
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不对劲 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不对劲 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Something is wrong with the washing machine.
He knew that something was wrong with her.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不对劲.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不对劲.
Directly before
- 有点不对劲2
- 地方不对劲1
- 有些不对劲1
- 麽不对劲1
- 你不对劲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 不对劲
What does 不对劲 mean in Chinese?
不对劲 (bùduìjìn) means not in good condition.
How do you pronounce 不对劲?
不对劲 is pronounced bùduìjìn.
Is 不对劲 an HSK word?
不对劲 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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