不大
bù dà 4–4 → 2–4
not very; not too; not often
- Characters
- 2
- 不 · 大
- Syllables
- 2
- bù dà
- Frequency
- Less common
- corpus count 4,915
Part of speech: d
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 不大. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 不bùHSK 1
no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 大dàHSK 1
big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 姐); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- 大家dà jiāHSK 2
everyone; influential family; great expert
- 不过bù guòHSK 2
only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- 不要bù yàoHSK 2
don't!; must not
- 不错bù cuòHSK 2
correct; right; not bad; pretty good
- 不同bù tóngHSK 2
different; distinct; not the same; not alike
- 大学dà xuéHSK 1
university; college
- 不管bù guǎnHSK 4
not to be concerned; regardless of; no matter
- 不再bù zàiHSK 6
no more; no longer
- 不用bù yòngHSK 1
need not
- 不少bù shǎoHSK 2
many; a lot; not few
- 不断bù duànHSK 3
unceasing; uninterrupted; continuous; constant
- 伟大wěi dàHSK 3
huge; great; grand; worthy of the greatest admiration; important (contribution etc)
- 不够bù gòuHSK 2
not enough; insufficient; inadequate
- 不行bù xíngHSK 2
won't do; be out of the question; be no good; not work; not be capable
- 不仅bù jǐnHSK 3
not just; not limited to; (as a correlative conjunction) not only (..., but also ...)
- 不知bù zhīHSK 7
not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
- 长大zhǎng dàHSK 2
to grow up
- 巨大jù dàHSK 4
huge; immense; very large; tremendous; gigantic; enormous
- 对不起duì bu qǐHSK 1
I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint
- 不得不bù dé bùHSK 3
have no choice or option but to; cannot but; have to; can't help it; can't avoid
- 大概dà gàiHSK 3
roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea
- 重大zhòng dàHSK 3
great; important; major; significant