I found your house with difficulty.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
好不容易
with great difficulty
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
with great difficulty
02
very difficult
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 好不容易 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 好不容易 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
They answered their teacher's question with difficulty.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 好不容易.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 好不容易.
Directly before
- 他们好不容易1
- 我好不容易1
- 我们好不容易1
Directly after
- 好不容易才2
- 好不容易找到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 好不容易
What does 好不容易 mean in Chinese?
好不容易 (hǎobùróngyì) means with great difficulty.
How do you pronounce 好不容易?
好不容易 is pronounced hǎobùróngyì.
Is 好不容易 an HSK word?
好不容易 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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