不备 (不備) bùbèi
bùbèi
adjective
unprepared; off guard
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '不備')
Contained in
- 攻其不备(攻其不備) attack [the enemy] when he is not prepared
- 乘人不备(乘人不備) to take by surprise
- 出其不意，攻其不备(出其不意，攻其不備) to catch an enemy off guard with a surprise attack (idiom, from Sunzi's The Art of War 孫子兵法|孙子兵法)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷二百一十二 列傳第一百三十七 藩鎮盧龍 Volume 212 Biographies 137: Buffer Region Lulong New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 4
- 卷二十二 禮樂志 Volume 22: Treatise on Rites and Music Book of Han 漢書 — count: 4
- 卷一 Scroll 1 Discourses on Salt and Iron 鹽鐵論 — count: 3
- 卷一 本紀第一: 太祖 Volume 1 Annals 1: Taizu History of Yuan 元史 — count: 3
- 卷五十 志第三 天文三 Volume 50 Treatises 3: Astronomy 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
- 卷六 魏書六 董二袁劉傳 Volume 6: Book of Wei 6 - Biographies of Dong, the two Yuans, and Liu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 2
- 卷二十四 志第四: 禮儀四 Volume 24 Treatises 4: Rites 4 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 2
- 卷五 問神 Chapter 5: Asking about the Divine Exemplary Figures 法言 — count: 2
- 滕文公下 Teng Wen Gong II Mencius 孟子 — count: 2
- 周語上 Discourses of Zhou I Guoyu 國語 — count: 2
Collocations
- 不备不虞 (不備不虞) 不備不虞 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 6
- 掩不备 (掩不備) 幾掩不備也 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷三 魏書三 明帝紀 Volume 3: Book of Wei 3 - Annals of Emperor Ming — count: 5
- 礼不备 (禮不備) 良禮不備 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十八 蕭望之傳 Volume 78: Xiao Wangzhi — count: 5
- 不可不备 (不可不備) 王不可不備 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷九 正諫 Chapter 9: Direct Advice — count: 5
- 人不备 (人不備) 而邊人不備 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3
- 朝廷不备 (朝廷不備) 朝廷不備 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十二 王貢兩龔鮑傳 Volume 72: Wang, Gong, two Gongs and Bao — count: 3
- 芬芳不备 (芬芳不備) 芬芳不備 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孝武本紀》 Annals of the Xiaowu Emperor — count: 3
- 文武不备 (文武不備) 文武不備 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《循吏列傳》 Biographies of Upright Officials — count: 3
- 衣服不备 (衣服不備) 衣服不備 — Mencius 孟子, 滕文公下 Teng Wen Gong II — count: 2
- 不备闻 (不備聞) 誰不備聞 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十四下 袁紹劉表列傳 Volume 74b: Biographies of Yuan Shao, Liu Biao 2 — count: 2