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不便

bù biàn

HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

不便 (bù biàn) means "inconvenient; inappropriate; unsuitable". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 不便 means

1. inconvenient
2. inappropriate
3. unsuitable
4. short of cash

The characters in 不便

• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 便biànplain; informal; suitable

Example sentences

• 这不便宜, 是吗?
  This wasn't cheap, was it?
• 一点也不便宜，贵得不得了。
  It's not even a little bit cheap, it's extremely expensive!
• 我们对这次的延迟表示抱歉，并对可能造成的不便表示遗憾。
  Wǒmen duì zhè cì de yánchí biǎoshì bàoqiàn, bìng duì kěnéng zàochéng de bù biàn biǎoshì yíhàn.
  We apologize for the delay and regret any inconvenience it may have caused.
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Words starting with 不便

• 不便险bù biàn xiǎntravel insurance covering flight delay, baggage loss etc (abbr. for 旅游不便保险

Words containing 不便

• 行动不便xíng dòng bù biànunable to move freely; difficult to get about

Sounds the same

Read bù biàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 不变constant; unvarying; (math) invariant

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bù biàn correctly.
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