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不像话

bù xiàng huà

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word Traditional 不像話

不像话 (bù xiàng huà) means "unreasonable; shocking; outrageous". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 不像话 means

1. unreasonable
2. shocking
3. outrageous

The characters in 不像话

• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 像xiàngto resemble; to be like; to look as if
• 话huàdialect; language; spoken words

Sounds the same

Read bù xiàng huà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 不象话unreasonable; shocking; outrageous

Where 不像话 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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