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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

放不下

fàngbuxià

to have no room to put sth

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to have no room to put sth

02

to be unable to let go

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 放不下 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 放不下 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我放不下。wǒ fàng bù xià。

I couldn't let it go.

那个箱子太小了,放不下这里这麽多东西。nà ge xiāng zi tài xiǎo le, fàng bù xià zhè lǐ zhè mó duō dōng xī。

That's too small a box to hold all these things.

这张桌子不错,不过有一个美中不足的地方 ﹣ 我的房间放不下它。zhè zhāng zhuō zi bù cuò, bù guò yǒu yí gè měi zhōng bù zú de dì fāng ﹣ wǒ de fáng jiān fàng bù xià tā。

This table is fine except in one respect - it will not fit into my room.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 放不下.

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

Directly before

  • 房间放不下1
  • 我放不下1

Directly after

  • 放不下这里1
  • 放不下它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 放不下

What does 放不下 mean in Chinese?

放不下 (fàngbuxià) means to have no room to put sth.

How do you pronounce 放不下?

放不下 is pronounced fàngbuxià.

Is 放不下 an HSK word?

放不下 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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