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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

漫不经心

mànbùjīngxīn

careless

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

careless

02

heedless

03

absent-minded

04

indifferent

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 漫不经心 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 漫不经心 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

汤姆漫不经心地听着玛丽说话。tāng mǔ màn bù jīng xīn dì tīng zhe mǎ lì shuō huà。

No published English translation for this sentence.

他们漫不经心还未察觉到危险。tā men màn bù jīng xīn hái wèi chá jué dào wēi xiǎn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 漫不经心.

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

Directly before

  • 他们漫不经心1
  • 汤姆漫不经心1

Directly after

  • 漫不经心还1
  • 漫不经心地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 漫不经心

What does 漫不经心 mean in Chinese?

漫不经心 (mànbùjīngxīn) means careless.

How do you pronounce 漫不经心?

漫不经心 is pronounced mànbùjīngxīn.

Is 漫不经心 an HSK word?

漫不经心 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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