CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

不朽

bùxiǔ

to last forever; eternal; enduring

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to last forever; eternal; enduring

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 不朽 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不朽 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

没有人是不朽的。méi yǒu rén shì bù xiǔ de。

No one of us is immortal.

不共戴天的敌人是不朽的朋友。bù gòng dài tiān de dí rén shì bù xiǔ de péng yǒu。

Mortal enemies are immortal friends.

我很荣幸能来到开罗这座不朽的城市，并受到两所著名学府的招待。千载以来，艾资哈尔大学一直担任著伊斯兰教育的指路明灯；百年以来，开罗大学亦一直是埃及全国的发展泉源。wǒ hěn róng xìng néng lái dào kāi luó zhè zuò bù xiǔ de chéng shì， bìng shòu dào liǎng suǒ zhù míng xué fǔ de zhāo dài。 qiān zài yǐ lái， ài zī hā ěr dà xué yì zhí dān rèn zhù yī sī lán jiào yù de zhǐ lù míng dēng； bǎi nián yǐ lái， kāi luó dà xué yì yì zhí shì āi jí quán guó de fā zhǎn quán yuán。

I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 不朽.

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

Directly before

是不朽3
这座不朽1

Directly after

不朽的4

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 不朽

What does 不朽 mean in Chinese?

不朽 (bùxiǔ) means to last forever; eternal; enduring.

How do you pronounce 不朽?

不朽 is pronounced bùxiǔ.

Is 不朽 an HSK word?

不朽 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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