不行 bùxíng

1. bùxíng adjective will not do; will not work
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Spoken Language
   Notes: (ABC 'bùxíng' 不行 sv 1, p. 73; CC-CEDICT '不行'; Guoyu '不行' 1; NCCED '不行' 3, p. 128)
2. bùxíng adjective not good; not capable of
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (ABC 'bùxíng' 不行 sv 2, p. 73; CC-CEDICT '不行'; Guoyu '不行' 3; NCCED '不行' 2, p. 128)
3. bùxíng adjective not acceptable; not permissible
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 不可 (ABC 'bùxíng' 不行 sv 3, p. 73; Guoyu '不行' 9; NCCED '不行' 1, p. 128)
4. bùxíng adjective failing; dying
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '不行' 10; NCCED '不行' 4, p. 128)
5. bùxíng adverb extremely
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 不得了 (ABC 'bùxíng' 不行 cons 3, p. 73; Guoyu '不行' 11; NCCED '不行' 5, p. 128)
6. bùxíng phrase to not go; to not move forward
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 不去 (Guoyu '不行' 2)
7. bùxíng adjective impossible
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 不发生 (Guoyu '不行' 4)

Contained in

• 决而不行(決而不行) making decisions without implementing them
• 到不行 extremely; incredibly
• 不行了 on the point of death; dying
• 土到不行 old-fashioned; extremely kitsch
• 不行善 do not practice good

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 《龜策列傳》 Biographies of Diviners Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 36
• 法法第十六 Chapter 16: Fa Fa Guanzi 管子 — count: 18
• 卷八十一 志第五十七 食貨五 Volume 81 Treatises 57: Finance and Economics 5 History of Ming 明史 — count: 13
• 形勢解第六十四 Chapter 64: Resolving a Situation Guanzi 管子 — count: 8
• 《盡心章句下》 Commentary on Jin Xin II Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 8
• 卷四十八　志第二十九:　食貨三 錢幣 Volume 48 Treatises 29: Finance and Economics 3 - Money History of Jin 金史 — count: 8
• 卷十二 志第二 歷上 Volume 12 Treatises 2: Calendar 1 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 8
• 卷十八 志第八 律曆下 Volume 18 Treatises 8: Rhythm and the Calendar Part Three Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 8
• 卷107下 律曆志三下 Volume 107b Treatise 3: Treatise on Music and Calendars 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 7
• 卷十七 志第七 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 7: Rhythm and the Calendar Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 7

Collocations

• 令不行 (令不行) 則令不行矣 — Guanzi 管子, 牧民第一 Chapter 1: Shepherding the People — count: 28
• 道不行 (道不行) 道不行 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 5. 《公冶長》Gong Ye Chang — count: 8
• 君不行 (君不行) 君不行何之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 6
• 说不行 (說不行) 說不行而有敗 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 說難第十二 Chapter 12: Difficulties of Persuasion — count: 5
• 罚不行 (罰不行) 罰不行於便辟 — Guanzi 管子, 重令第十五 Chapter 15: Important Edicts — count: 4
• 禁令不行 (禁令不行) 是以刑罰不必則禁令不行 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 內儲說上七術第三十 Chapter 30: A Collection of Sayings I — count: 3
• 赏不行 (賞不行) 是以厚賞不行 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 五蠹第四十九 Chapter 49: Five Vermin — count: 3
• 政令不行 (政令不行) 進退無儀則政令不行 — Guanzi 管子, 形勢第二 Chapter 2: Circumstances — count: 3
• 上不行 (上不行) 上不行君令 — Guanzi 管子, 法法第十六 Chapter 16: Fa Fa — count: 3
• 家不行 (家不行) 十鍾之家不行 — Guanzi 管子, 輕重乙第八十一 Chapter 81: Weight II — count: 3