好意思 hǎoyìsi have the nerve Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 好意思 hǎoyìsi have the nerve adjective to have the audacity or feel no shame to do something; often used rhetorically to question the propriety of an action 你自己都没做完，怎么还好意思说别人？ nǐ zìjǐ dōu méi zuòwán, zěnme hái hǎoyìsi shuō biéren? You haven't even finished it yourself; how can you have the nerve to criticize others? overcome embarrassment adjective to overcome shyness or one's sense of shame to do something 他犹豫了很久，才好意思开口向朋友借钱。 tā yóuyù le hěn jiǔ, cái hǎoyìsi kāikǒu xiàng péngyou jièqián. He hesitated for a long time before he felt comfortable asking his friend for money. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.64 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 3.56 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
好意思 hǎoyìsi have the nerve adjective to have the audacity or feel no shame to do something; often used rhetorically to question the propriety of an action 你自己都没做完，怎么还好意思说别人？ nǐ zìjǐ dōu méi zuòwán, zěnme hái hǎoyìsi shuō biéren? You haven't even finished it yourself; how can you have the nerve to criticize others? overcome embarrassment adjective to overcome shyness or one's sense of shame to do something 他犹豫了很久，才好意思开口向朋友借钱。 tā yóuyù le hěn jiǔ, cái hǎoyìsi kāikǒu xiàng péngyou jièqián. He hesitated for a long time before he felt comfortable asking his friend for money. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.64 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 3.56 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
