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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

看不见

kànbujiàn

cannot see

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

cannot see

02

cannot be seen

03

invisible

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 看不见 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 看不见 appears in 39 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我什么都看不见。wǒ shén me dōu kàn bú jiàn。

I don't see anything.

除了雾我什么都看不见。chú le wù wǒ shén me dōu kàn bú jiàn。

I could see nothing but fog.

我听得见你,但我看不见你。wǒ tīng de jiàn nǐ, dàn wǒ kàn bú jiàn nǐ。

I can hear you, but I can't see you.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 看不见.

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

Directly before

  • 都看不见9
  • 也看不见8
  • 我们看不见4
  • 我看不见4
  • 眼睛看不见3

Directly after

  • 看不见的6
  • 看不见了5
  • 看不见你2
  • 看不见他们2
  • 看不见却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 看不见

What does 看不见 mean in Chinese?

看不见 (kànbujiàn) means cannot see.

How do you pronounce 看不见?

看不见 is pronounced kànbujiàn.

Is 看不见 an HSK word?

看不见 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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