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大不了

dà bu liǎo

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word

大不了 (dà bù liǎo) means "at worst; if worst comes to worst; (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 大不了 means

1. at worst; if worst comes to worst
2. (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming

The characters in 大不了

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 了le(completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)…

Where 大不了 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dǎ (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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