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不成

bù chéng

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

不成 (bù chéng) means "won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 不成 means

1. won't do
2. unable to
3. (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?

The characters in 不成

• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 成chéngto succeed; to finish; to complete

Words starting with 不成

• 不成文bù chéng wénunwritten (rule)
• 不成样子bù chéng yàng zishapeless; deformed; ruined
• 不成文法bù chéng wén fǎunwritten law
• 不成体统bù chéng tǐ tǒngnot according with decorum (idiom); scandalous; bad form; unacceptable behavior
• 不成材bù chéng cáiworthless; good-for-nothing

Words containing 不成

• 泣不成声qì bù chéng shēng(idiom) unable to speak through tears; sobbing uncontrollably
• 恨铁不成钢hèn tiě bù chéng gānglit. disappointed that iron does not turn into steel (idiom)…
• 难不成nán bù chéngIs it possible that ... ?
• 高不成低不就gāo bù chéng dī bù jiùcan't reach the high or accept the low (idiom); not good enough for a high post, but too…
• 独木不成林dú mù bù chéng lína lone tree does not make a forest (idiom); one cannot accomplish much on one's own

Sounds the same

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

• 布城Putrajaya, federal administrative territory of Malaysia, south of Kuala Lumpur city 吉隆坡市

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