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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

不理

bùlǐ

to refuse to acknowledge

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to refuse to acknowledge

02

to pay no attention to

03

to take no notice of

04

to ignore

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 不理 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不理 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

不理她。bù lǐ tā。

Don't pay attention to her.

他们不理我。tā men bù lǐ wǒ。

They're ignoring me.

为什么你不理我?wèi shén me nǐ bù lǐ wǒ?

Why are you ignoring me?

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 不理.

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

Directly before

  • 他们不理2
  • 她不理1
  • 某人不理1
  • 你不理1
  • 会不理1

Directly after

  • 不理我2
  • 不理他1
  • 不理众人1
  • 不理事实1
  • 不理她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 不理

What does 不理 mean in Chinese?

不理 (bùlǐ) means to refuse to acknowledge.

How do you pronounce 不理?

不理 is pronounced bùlǐ.

Is 不理 an HSK word?

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

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