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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

不时之需

bùshízhīxū

a possible period of want or need

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

a possible period of want or need

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 不时之需 actually appears in real sentences.

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

她存了一些钱,以备不时之需。tā cún le yī xiē qián, yǐ bèi bù shí zhī xū。

She saved some money for a rainy day.

旅行时,我会带上轻便的寝具以备不时之需。lǚ xíng shí, wǒ huì dài shàng qīng biàn de qǐn jù yǐ bèi bù shí zhī xū。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 不时之需.

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

Directly before

  • 以备不时之需2

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 不时之需

What does 不时之需 mean in Chinese?

不时之需 (bùshízhīxū) means a possible period of want or need.

How do you pronounce 不时之需?

不时之需 is pronounced bùshízhīxū.

Is 不时之需 an HSK word?

不时之需 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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