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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

无趣

wúqù

dull; vapid; colorless

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

dull; vapid; colorless

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 无趣 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 无趣 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我以前觉得这很无趣。wǒ yǐ qián jué de zhè hěn wú qù。

I used to feel it dull.

汤姆是我见过的最无趣的人之一。tāng mǔ shì wǒ jiàn guò de zuì wú qù de rén zhī yī。

Tom is one of the most boring people I've ever met.

昨晚我们看了一部很无趣又沉闷的电影。zuó wǎn wǒ men kàn le yī bù hěn wú qù yòu chén mèn de diàn yǐng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 无趣.

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

Directly before

  • 很无趣2
  • 最无趣1

Directly after

  • 无趣的1
  • 无趣又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 无趣

What does 无趣 mean in Chinese?

无趣 (wúqù) means dull; vapid; colorless.

How do you pronounce 无趣?

无趣 is pronounced wúqù.

Is 无趣 an HSK word?

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

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