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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

难保

nánbǎo

hard to say

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

hard to say

02

can't guarantee

03

difficult to protect

04

difficult to preserve

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 难保 actually appears in real sentences.

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

俺的性命,今番难保了。ǎn de xìng mìng, jīn fān nán bǎo le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

他是泥菩萨过江,自身都难保,哪还有闲暇顾及我们。tā shì ní pú sà guò jiāng, zì shēn dōu nán bǎo, nǎ hái yǒu xián xiá gù jí wǒ men。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 难保.

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

Directly before

  • 都难保1
  • 今番难保1

Directly after

  • 难保了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 难保

What does 难保 mean in Chinese?

难保 (nánbǎo) means hard to say.

How do you pronounce 难保?

难保 is pronounced nánbǎo.

Is 难保 an HSK word?

难保 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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