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看不起

kàn bu qǐ

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 3-character word

看不起 (kàn bu qǐ) means "to look down upon". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 看不起 means

1. to look down upon
2. to despise

The characters in 看不起

• 看kànto see; to look at; to read; to watch
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 起qǐto rise; to raise; to get up

Example sentences

• 她看不起他。
  She despised him.
• 她看不起我。
  She despises me.

Where 看不起 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Evaluation, Faults & Criticism (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 kàn bu qǐ correctly.
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