His failure to observe traffic regulations resulted in a serious accident.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
未能
cannot
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
cannot
02
to fail to
03
unable to
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 未能 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 未能 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
They have both failed to find the most serious problem that has ever faced our planet.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 未能.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 未能.
Directly before
- 都未能1
- 他未能1
- 若未能1
Directly after
- 未能找到1
- 未能遵守1
- 未能达到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 未能
What does 未能 mean in Chinese?
未能 (wèinéng) means cannot.
How do you pronounce 未能?
未能 is pronounced wèinéng.
Is 未能 an HSK word?
未能 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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