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不易

bù yì

2-character word

What 不易 means

1. not easy to do sth
2. difficult
3. unchanging

The characters in 不易

• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 易yìeasy; amiable; to change

Example sentences

• 塑料不易燃烧。
  Sùliào bù yì ránshāo.
  Plastic does not burn easily.
• 人觉得自己被嘲笑时最易生气，因此有自信的人往往不易动怒。
  Rén juéde zìjǐ bèi cháoxiào shí zuì yì shēngqì, yīncǐ yǒu zìxìn de rén wǎngwǎng bù yì dòngnù.
  People are most angry when they feel they are being mocked. That's why those who are confident in themselves seldom become angry.

Words starting with 不易

• 不易之论bù yì zhī lùnperfectly sound proposition; unalterable truth; irrefutable argument

Words containing 不易

• 来之不易lái zhī bù yì(idiom) hard to come by; not easily obtained
• 得来不易dé lái bù yìhard to come by; not easily obtained; hard-won
• 实属不易shí shǔ bù yìreally not easy (idiom)

Sounds the same

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

• 不意unexpectedly; unawareness; unpreparedness
• 不义injustice
• 不亦(literary) isn't it truly …?; how … it is!