They said that they didn't like to do that.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不愿
unwilling
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
unwilling
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不愿 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不愿 appears in 15 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I prefer working to doing nothing.
Would you rather lie than make him angry?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不愿.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不愿.
Directly before
- 也不愿5
- 她不愿2
- 我不愿2
- 总是不愿1
- 就不愿1
Directly after
- 不愿让2
- 不愿在2
- 不愿閒著1
- 不愿松开1
- 不愿放手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 不愿
What does 不愿 mean in Chinese?
不愿 (bùyuàn) means unwilling.
How do you pronounce 不愿?
不愿 is pronounced bùyuàn.
Is 不愿 an HSK word?
不愿 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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