The cause of the fire is not known.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不明
not clear
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
not clear
02
unknown
03
to fail to understand
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不明 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不明 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The cause of the fire was unknown.
The suspect's gender is currently unknown.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不明.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不明.
Directly before
- 原因不明2
- 性别不明2
- 靠不明1
- 死因不明1
- 还不明1
Directly after
- 不明事理2
- 不明原因1
- 不明骇客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 不明
What does 不明 mean in Chinese?
不明 (bùmíng) means not clear.
How do you pronounce 不明?
不明 is pronounced bùmíng.
Is 不明 an HSK word?
不明 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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