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不客气

bù kè qi 4–4–5 → 2–4–5

you're welcome; don't mention it; impolite; rude; blunt

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 1 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
3
不 · 客 · 气
Syllables
3
bù kè qi
Frequency
Rare
corpus count 16,723

Character by character

  • 不bù4 strokesHSK 1no, not; un-; negative prefix
  • 客kè9 strokesHSK 1guest, traveller; customer
  • 气qì4 strokesHSK 1 traditional 氣steam, vapor; Kangxi radical 84

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 不客气。

    Bù kè qi

    You're welcome.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 不客气. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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