Politicians never tell us their inner thoughts.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
别有用心
to have an ulterior motive (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to have an ulterior motive (idiom)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 别有用心 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 别有用心 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 别有用心.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 别有用心.
Directly before
- 的别有用心1
- 他别有用心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 别有用心
What does 别有用心 mean in Chinese?
别有用心 (biéyǒuyòngxīn) means to have an ulterior motive (idiom).
How do you pronounce 别有用心?
别有用心 is pronounced biéyǒuyòngxīn.
Is 别有用心 an HSK word?
别有用心 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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