I am very ill at ease with strangers.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不自在
uneasy
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
uneasy
02
ill at ease
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不自在 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不自在 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I'm not quite myself today.
Stop it! You're making her feel uncomfortable!
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不自在.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不自在.
Directly before
- 浑身不自在3
- 很不自在2
- 她不自在1
- 无处不自在1
- 感觉不自在1
Directly after
- 不自在了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 不自在
What does 不自在 mean in Chinese?
不自在 (bùzìzai) means uneasy.
How do you pronounce 不自在?
不自在 is pronounced bùzìzai.
Is 不自在 an HSK word?
不自在 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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