I shouldn't have logged off.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不该
should not
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
should not
02
to owe nothing
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不该 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不该 appears in 75 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
You must not eat too much.
You should not waste your time.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不该.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不该.
Directly before
- 你不该22
- 我不该12
- 我们不该5
- 本不该4
- 就不该3
Directly after
- 不该把6
- 不该让5
- 不该在4
- 不该做4
- 不该说4
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 不该
What does 不该 mean in Chinese?
不该 (bùgāi) means should not.
How do you pronounce 不该?
不该 is pronounced bùgāi.
Is 不该 an HSK word?
不该 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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