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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

差劲

chàjìn

bad

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

bad

02

no good

03

below average

04

disappointing

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 差劲 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 差劲 appears in 12 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你这种人差劲吗!nǐ zhè zhǒng rén chà jìn ma!

You are a disappointing person!

汤姆是个差劲的教练。tāng mǔ shì gè chà jìn de jiào liàn。

Tom was a bad coach.

海明威的写作风格很差劲。hǎi míng wēi de xiě zuò fēng gé hěn chà jìn。

Hemingway had a poor writing style.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 差劲.

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

Directly before

  • 最差劲2
  • 个差劲2
  • 真是太差劲2
  • 人差劲1
  • 这么差劲1

Directly after

  • 差劲的6
  • 差劲了3
  • 差劲吗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 差劲

What does 差劲 mean in Chinese?

差劲 (chàjìn) means bad.

How do you pronounce 差劲?

差劲 is pronounced chàjìn.

Is 差劲 an HSK word?

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

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