You don't have to say anything you don't want to say.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不用说
needless to say; it goes without saying
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
needless to say; it goes without saying
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不用说 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不用说 appears in 15 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It goes without saying that he is not guilty.
You don't have to tell me if you don't want to.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不用说.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不用说.
Directly before
- 更不用说8
- 更加不用说1
- 你不用说1
- 就不用说1
- 的话不用说1
Directly after
- 不用说了2
- 不用说会1
- 不用说德语1
- 不用说汽车1
- 不用说正确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 不用说
What does 不用说 mean in Chinese?
不用说 (bùyòngshuō) means needless to say; it goes without saying.
How do you pronounce 不用说?
不用说 is pronounced bùyòngshuō.
Is 不用说 an HSK word?
不用说 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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