CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

不清

bùqīng

unclear

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

unclear

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 不清 actually appears in real sentences.

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世界上任何人的独自活动，都是清醒而目标明确的，然而一旦被生活的洪流聚在一起，就变得混沌不清了。shì jiè shàng rèn hé rén de dú zì huó dòng， dōu shì qīng xǐng ér mù biāo míng què de， rán ér yí dàn bèi shēng huó de hóng liú jù zài yì qǐ， jiù biàn dé hùn dùn bù qīng le。

All individuals in the world act with clear goals and distinct intentions. But once these actions are brought together by the great torrents of life, clarity recedes and chaos ensues.

他要强使一种土地滋生另一种土地上的东西，强使一种树木结出另一种树木的果实；他将气候、风雨、季节搞得混乱不清；他残害他的狗、他的马和他的奴仆；他扰乱一切，毁伤一切东西的本来面目；他喜爱丑陋和奇形怪状的东西；他不愿意事物天然的那个样子，甚至对人也是如此，必须把人象练马场的马那样加以训练；必须把人象花园中的树木那样，照他喜爱的样子弄得歪歪扭扭。tā yào qiáng shǐ yī zhǒng tǔ dì zī shēng lìng yī zhǒng tǔ dì shàng de dōng xī， qiáng shǐ yī zhǒng shù mù jié chū lìng yī zhǒng shù mù de guǒ shí； tā jiāng qì hòu、 fēng yǔ、 jì jié gǎo dé hùn luàn bù qīng； tā cán hài tā de gǒu、 tā de mǎ hé tā de nú pú； tā rǎo luàn yī qiè， huǐ shāng yī qiè dōng xī de běn lái miàn mù； tā xǐ ài chǒu lòu hé qí xíng guài zhuàng de dōng xī； tā bù yuàn yì shì wù tiān rán de nà ge yàng zi， shèn zhì duì rén yě shì rú cǐ， bì xū bǎ rén xiàng liàn mǎ chǎng de mǎ nà yàng jiā yǐ xùn liàn； bì xū bǎ rén xiàng huā yuán zhōng de shù mù nà yàng， zhào tā xǐ ài de yàng zi nòng dé wāi wāi niǔ niǔ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 不清.

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

Directly before

混沌不清1
混乱不清1

Directly after

不清了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 不清

What does 不清 mean in Chinese?

不清 (bùqīng) means unclear.

How do you pronounce 不清?

不清 is pronounced bùqīng.

Is 不清 an HSK word?

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

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