Quite a few students played truant from school.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不少
many
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
many
02
a lot
03
not few
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不少 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不少 appears in 52 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
A good many people were there.
A large amount of money was spent on the bridge.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不少.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不少.
Directly before
- 了不少18
- 有不少10
- 还有不少3
- 孩子不少1
- 收益不少1
Directly after
- 不少钱4
- 不少人4
- 不少于3
- 不少时间3
- 不少学生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 不少
What does 不少 mean in Chinese?
不少 (bùshǎo) means many.
How do you pronounce 不少?
不少 is pronounced bùshǎo.
Is 不少 an HSK word?
不少 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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