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五音不全

wǔyīnbùquán

tone deaf

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

tone deaf

02

unable to sing in tune

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 五音不全 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 五音不全 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

他不知道他自己五音不全。tā bù zhī dào tā zì jǐ wǔ yīn bù quán。

He doesn't realise that he's tone deaf.

他在卡拉OK点了《夜来香》,一开口却五音不全,把全场都逗笑了。tā zài kǎ lā OK diǎn le 《 yè lái xiāng 》, yī kāi kǒu què wǔ yīn bù quán, bǎ quán chǎng dōu dòu xiào le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 五音不全.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 五音不全.

Directly before

  • 自己五音不全1
  • 却五音不全1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 五音不全

What does 五音不全 mean in Chinese?

五音不全 (wǔyīnbùquán) means tone deaf.

How do you pronounce 五音不全?

五音不全 is pronounced wǔyīnbùquán.

Is 五音不全 an HSK word?

五音不全 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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