Tom is incorrigible.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
无可救药
lit. no antidote is possible (idiom); incurable
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
lit. no antidote is possible (idiom); incurable
02
incorrigible
03
beyond redemption
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 无可救药 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 无可救药 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
He's a hopeless case.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 无可救药.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 无可救药.
Directly before
- 个无可救药1
- 汤姆无可救药1
Directly after
- 无可救药的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 无可救药
What does 无可救药 mean in Chinese?
无可救药 (wúkějiùyào) means lit. no antidote is possible (idiom); incurable.
How do you pronounce 无可救药?
无可救药 is pronounced wúkějiùyào.
Is 无可救药 an HSK word?
无可救药 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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