What's not necessary?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不必要
needless; unnecessary
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
needless; unnecessary
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不必要 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不必要 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
You don't have to stay in the hospital.
I believe this was unnecessary.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不必要.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不必要.
Directly before
- 你不必要1
- 删去不必要1
- 是不必要1
- 这是不必要1
- 制造不必要1
Directly after
- 不必要的4
- 不必要呆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 不必要
What does 不必要 mean in Chinese?
不必要 (bùbìyào) means needless; unnecessary.
How do you pronounce 不必要?
不必要 is pronounced bùbìyào.
Is 不必要 an HSK word?
不必要 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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