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怪不得

guài bu de

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word

怪不得 (guài bu de) means "no wonder!; so that's why!". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 怪不得 means

1. no wonder!
2. so that's why!

The characters in 怪不得

• 怪guàiodd; strange; uncanny; (bound form) monster; supernatural being; to find strange…
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…

Example sentences

• 这家商店人员的态度特好，怪不得顾客也好多。
  The staff in this shop are really friendly; no wonder they've got so many customers.

Where 怪不得 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Miscellaneous Objects, Places & Terms A (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read guài bu de correctly.
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