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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不由
can't help (doing sth)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
can't help (doing sth)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不由 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不由 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不由.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不由.
Directly before
- 却不由1
- 我不由1
Directly after
- 不由人1
- 不由天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 不由
What does 不由 mean in Chinese?
不由 (bùyóu) means can't help (doing sth).
How do you pronounce 不由?
不由 is pronounced bùyóu.
Is 不由 an HSK word?
不由 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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