I can't bear to see you like this.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不忍心
can't bear to (do sth emotionally painful)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
can't bear to (do sth emotionally painful)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不忍心 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不忍心 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The superior man is affected towards animals: having seen them alive, he cannot bear to see them die; having heard their cries, he cannot bear to eat their flesh.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不忍心.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不忍心.
Directly before
- 便不忍心2
- 我不忍心1
Directly after
- 不忍心见到1
- 不忍心吃1
- 不忍心看到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 不忍心
What does 不忍心 mean in Chinese?
不忍心 (bùrěnxīn) means can't bear to (do sth emotionally painful).
How do you pronounce 不忍心?
不忍心 is pronounced bùrěnxīn.
Is 不忍心 an HSK word?
不忍心 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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