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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

不息

bùxī

continually

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

continually

02

without a break

03

ceaselessly

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 不息 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不息 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

树欲静而风不息,子欲养而亲不在!shù yù jìng ér fēng bù xī, zi yù yǎng ér qīn bù zài!

As the trees crave tranquility in the ever-persistent wind, the child craves the care of its ever-absent parents.

想要自由,就需要付出不息的警觉。xiǎng yào zì yóu, jiù xū yào fù chū bù xī de jǐng jué。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 不息.

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

Directly before

  • 风不息1
  • 付出不息1

Directly after

  • 不息的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 不息

What does 不息 mean in Chinese?

不息 (bùxī) means continually.

How do you pronounce 不息?

不息 is pronounced bùxī.

Is 不息 an HSK word?

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

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