He is inferior to you in all respects.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
比不上
can't compare with
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
can't compare with
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 比不上 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 比不上 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I cannot cook as well as my mother does.
Artificial leather can't compare with the real thing.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 比不上.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 比不上.
Directly before
- 都比不上2
- 青比不上1
- 厨艺比不上1
- 可能比不上1
- 是比不上1
Directly after
- 比不上黑1
- 比不上你1
- 比不上我1
- 比不上中文1
- 比不上他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 比不上
What does 比不上 mean in Chinese?
比不上 (bǐbùshàng) means can't compare with.
How do you pronounce 比不上?
比不上 is pronounced bǐbùshàng.
Is 比不上 an HSK word?
比不上 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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