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不了了之

bù liǎo liǎo zhī

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

不了了之 (bù liǎo liǎo zhī) means "to settle a matter by leaving it unsettled; to end up with nothing definite". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 不了了之 means

1. to settle a matter by leaving it unsettled
2. to end up with nothing definite

The characters in 不了了之

• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 了le(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)…
• 了le(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)…
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her

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