Read Edit View history 不成 bùchéng HSK6 [unable to] Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 不成 bù//chéng [unable to] particle Used as a result after a verb to show that the action cannot be completed or that the goal cannot be reached. 我们可能永远当不成朋友。 wǒmen kěnéng yǒngyuǎn dāng bù chéng péngyou. We may never be friends. won't do verb to be unacceptable; to be no good; won't work 停车通常是不成问题的。 tíng chē tōngcháng shì bùchéng wèntí de. Parking is usually no problem. to fail (bound form) to fail to happen; to not become something; to have no success or achievement [rhetorical] Used at the end of a sentence to add emphasis to a rhetorical question, often used together with 难道 nándào or 莫非 mòfēi to mean "can it be that...?". Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 1.79 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 23.5 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 6 Cross-References See 难道 nándào莫非 mòfēi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
不成 bù//chéng [unable to] particle Used as a result after a verb to show that the action cannot be completed or that the goal cannot be reached. 我们可能永远当不成朋友。 wǒmen kěnéng yǒngyuǎn dāng bù chéng péngyou. We may never be friends. won't do verb to be unacceptable; to be no good; won't work 停车通常是不成问题的。 tíng chē tōngcháng shì bùchéng wèntí de. Parking is usually no problem. to fail (bound form) to fail to happen; to not become something; to have no success or achievement [rhetorical] Used at the end of a sentence to add emphasis to a rhetorical question, often used together with 难道 nándào or 莫非 mòfēi to mean "can it be that...?". Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 1.79 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 23.5 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 6 Cross-References See 难道 nándào莫非 mòfēi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)