Unhappiness comes without being called.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不请自来
to turn up without being invited
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to turn up without being invited
02
unsolicited
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不请自来 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不请自来 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I felt as if I were an uninvited guest.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不请自来.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不请自来.
Directly before
- 像是不请自来1
- 快乐不请自来1
Directly after
- 不请自来似的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 不请自来
What does 不请自来 mean in Chinese?
不请自来 (bùqǐngzìlái) means to turn up without being invited.
How do you pronounce 不请自来?
不请自来 is pronounced bùqǐngzìlái.
Is 不请自来 an HSK word?
不请自来 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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