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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

够用

gòuyòng

adequate

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

adequate

02

sufficient

03

enough

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 够用 actually appears in real sentences.

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

这麽大的够用吗?zhè mó dà de gòu yòng ma?

Is it large enough?

你现在的薪水够用吗?nǐ xiàn zài de xīn shuǐ gòu yòng ma?

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 够用.

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

Directly before

  • 薪水够用1
  • 的够用1

Directly after

  • 够用吗2
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 够用

What does 够用 mean in Chinese?

够用 (gòuyòng) means adequate.

How do you pronounce 够用?

够用 is pronounced gòuyòng.

Is 够用 an HSK word?

够用 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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