马虎
mǎ​hu HSK7

careless

马虎 (馬虎) mǎ​hu
careless adjective
Lacking attention, care, or thoroughness; performing tasks in a negligent, sloppy, or perfunctory manner.

他办事一向很马虎，所以大家都不太信任他。

tā bàn​shì yī​xiàng hěn mǎ​hu, suǒ​yǐ dà​jiā dōu bù tài xìn​rèn tā.

He is always careless in his work, so everyone lacks trust in him.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
1.16 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.69 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Has variant

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)