三不 sānbù
sānbù
phrase
the three no's (abbreviated catchphrase)
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '三不')
Contained in
- 不三不四 dubious; shady; neither one thing nor the other; neither fish nor fowl; nondescript
- 着三不着两(著三不著兩) scatter-brained; thoughtless
- 三不五时(三不五時) from time to time; frequently
- 三不管 of undetermined status; unregulated
- 三不沾 air ball (basketball)
- 三不知 to know nothing about the beginning, the middle or the end; to know nothing at all
- 一问三不知(一問三不知) to reply don't know whatever the question; absolutely no idea of what's going on; complete ignorance
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二十九回 Chapter 29 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 卷十八 人間訓 Chapter 18: The Human World Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 3
- 卷九十一 列傳第四十一: 桓彥範 敬暉 崔玄暐 張柬之 袁恕己 Volume 91 Biographies 41: Huan Yanfan, Jing Hui, Cui Xuanwei, Zhang Jianzhi, Yuan Shuji Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 2
- 卷十九 修文 Chapter 19: Cultivation and Education Garden of Stories 說苑 — count: 2
- 卷二百二十四上 列傳第一百四十九上 叛臣上 Volume 224a Biographies 149a: Treasonous Ministers 1 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 2
- 第四回 Chapter 4 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 第九十回 Chapter 90 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 2
- 卷十五 魏書十五 劉司馬梁張溫賈傳 Volume 15: Book of Wei 15 - Biographies of Liu, Sima, Liang, Zhang, Wen, and Jia Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 2
- 卷二百七十九 列傳第一百六十七 呂大器 文安之 樊一蘅 吳炳 王錫袞 堵胤錫 嚴起恒 朱天麟 楊畏知 吳貞毓 Volume 279 Biographies 167: Lu Daqi, Wen Anzhi, Fan Yiheng, Wu Bing, Wang Xigun, Du Yinxi, Yan Qiheng, Zhu Tianlin, Yang Weizhi, Wu Zhenyu History of Ming 明史 — count: 2
- 卷一 君道 Chapter 1: The Way of the Ruler Garden of Stories 說苑 — count: 2
Collocations
- 三不可 (三不可) 二三不可 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六十四 列傳第三十四 武十三王 元四王 簡文三子 Volume 64 Biographies 34: Thirteen Princes of Wu; Four Princes of Yuan; Three Sons of Jianwen — count: 18
- 三不易 (三不易) 三不易也 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷三十五 蜀書五 諸葛亮傳 Volume 35: Book of Shu 5 - Biography of Zhuge Liang — count: 7
- 三不祥 (三不祥) 天下有三不祥 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十八 人間訓 Chapter 18: The Human World — count: 7
- 三不成 (三不成) 吾聞君三封而三不成者 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《仲尼弟子列傳》 Biographies of the disciples of Zhongni — count: 5
- 陈三不 (陳三不) 懷光陳三不可 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷二百二十四上 列傳第一百四十九上 叛臣上 Volume 224a Biographies 149a: Treasonous Ministers 1 — count: 4
- 三不朝 (三不朝) 三不朝 — Mencius 孟子, 告子下 Gaozi II — count: 4
- 三不宜 (三不宜) 三不宜動 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百二十七 載記第二十七 慕容德 Volume 12 Records 27: Murong De — count: 4
- 三不食 (三不食) 三不食 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《喪大記》 The Greater Record of Mourning Rites — count: 3
- 三不过 (三不過) 無三不過望 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二十九回 Chapter 29 — count: 3
- 三不剌 (三不剌) 巡狩三不剌之地 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷一百四十八 列傳第三十五: 董俊 嚴實 Volume 148 Biographies 35: Dong Jun, Yan Shi — count: 3