Don't ask, and I won't lie.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不问
to pay no attention to
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to pay no attention to
02
to disregard
03
to ignore
04
to let go unpunished
05
to let off
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不问 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不问 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I don't like teachers who like students who don't like asking questions.
If you really want to know, why don't you ask Tom?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不问.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不问.
Directly before
- 喜欢不问1
- 学问不问1
- 你不问1
- 为什么不问1
Directly after
- 不问问题1
- 不问有用1
- 不问我1
- 不问一下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 不问
What does 不问 mean in Chinese?
不问 (bùwèn) means to pay no attention to.
How do you pronounce 不问?
不问 is pronounced bùwèn.
Is 不问 an HSK word?
不问 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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