I don't want anything to drink.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不想
unexpectedly; to one's surprise
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
unexpectedly; to one's surprise
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不想 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不想 appears in 453 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I don't want to wait that long.
I don't feel like waiting any longer.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不想.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不想.
Directly before
- 我不想194
- 你不想38
- 汤姆不想29
- 也不想21
- 想不想18
Directly after
- 不想去38
- 不想让34
- 不想再20
- 不想做16
- 不想跟15
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 不想
What does 不想 mean in Chinese?
不想 (bùxiǎng) means unexpectedly; to one's surprise.
How do you pronounce 不想?
不想 is pronounced bùxiǎng.
Is 不想 an HSK word?
不想 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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