CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

遥不可及

yáobùkějí

unattainable

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

unattainable

far-fetched

out of reach

exceedingly remote or distant

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 遥不可及 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 遥不可及 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

书中满是遥不可及、没有科学根据的理论。shū zhōng mǎn shì yáo bù kě jí、 méi yǒu kē xué gēn jù de lǐ lùn。

The book is full of far-flung theories without any basis in scientific fact.

她觉得浑身不自在，尽管这个奇怪孩子的身体可能坐在桌子旁，但她的精神却在风尘云雾中遥不可及，高高地于想象力的翅膀上漂浮。tā jué de hún shēn bù zì zài， jǐn guǎn zhè ge qí guài hái zi de shēn tǐ kě néng zuò zài zhuō zi páng， dàn tā de jīng shén què zài fēng chén yún wù zhōng yáo bù kě jí， gāo gāo dì yú xiǎng xiàng lì de chì bǎng shàng piāo fú。

She had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child's body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland, borne aloft on the wings of imagination.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 遥不可及.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 遥不可及.

Directly before

是遥不可及1
中遥不可及1

Directly after

No repeated neighbour in the corpus.

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 遥不可及

What does 遥不可及 mean in Chinese?

遥不可及 (yáobùkějí) means unattainable.

How do you pronounce 遥不可及?

遥不可及 is pronounced yáobùkějí.

Is 遥不可及 an HSK word?

遥不可及 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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