I don't understand what I'm looking at.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
看不懂
unable to make sense of what one is looking at
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
unable to make sense of what one is looking at
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 看不懂 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 看不懂 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I don't understand what I'm looking at.
I cannot read French.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 看不懂.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 看不懂.
Directly before
- 我看不懂3
- 完全看不懂2
- 一个看不懂1
Directly after
- 看不懂法语1
- 看不懂的1
- 看不懂这些1
- 看不懂爱因斯坦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 看不懂
What does 看不懂 mean in Chinese?
看不懂 (kànbudǒng) means unable to make sense of what one is looking at.
How do you pronounce 看不懂?
看不懂 is pronounced kànbudǒng.
Is 看不懂 an HSK word?
看不懂 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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