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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

不忙

bùmáng

(polite formula) there's no hurry; take your time

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(polite formula) there's no hurry; take your time

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 不忙 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不忙 appears in 12 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我不忙。wǒ bù máng。

I am not busy.

我也不忙。wǒ yě bù máng。

I'm not busy either.

你忙不忙?nǐ máng bù máng?

Are you busy?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 不忙.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不忙.

Directly before

  • 忙不忙4
  • 你不忙2
  • 也不忙2
  • 我不忙2
  • 他不忙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 不忙

What does 不忙 mean in Chinese?

不忙 (bùmáng) means (polite formula) there's no hurry; take your time.

How do you pronounce 不忙?

不忙 is pronounced bùmáng.

Is 不忙 an HSK word?

不忙 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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