Plastic does not burn easily.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不易
not easy to do sth
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
not easy to do sth
02
difficult
03
unchanging
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不易 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不易 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
People are most angry when they feel they are being mocked. That's why those who are confident in themselves seldom become angry.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不易.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不易.
Directly before
- 就不易2
- 塑料不易1
- 往往不易1
- 著实不易1
Directly after
- 不易燃烧1
- 不易长草1
- 不易生恶1
- 不易动怒1
- 不易啊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 不易
What does 不易 mean in Chinese?
不易 (bùyì) means not easy to do sth.
How do you pronounce 不易?
不易 is pronounced bùyì.
Is 不易 an HSK word?
不易 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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