His English is very poor.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
蹩脚
inferior
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
inferior
02
shoddy
03
lousy
04
lame
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 蹩脚 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 蹩脚 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 蹩脚.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 蹩脚.
Directly before
- 很蹩脚1
- 个蹩脚1
Directly after
- 蹩脚的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 蹩脚
What does 蹩脚 mean in Chinese?
蹩脚 (biéjiǎo) means inferior.
How do you pronounce 蹩脚?
蹩脚 is pronounced biéjiǎo.
Is 蹩脚 an HSK word?
蹩脚 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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