不可 bù kě
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bù kě
adjective
cannot / should not / must not / forbidden / prohibited
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '不可'; Guoyu '不可' 1) -
bù kě
adjective
improbable
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '不可' 2)
Contained in
- 不可思 inconceivable / unthinkable / unimaginable
- 不可挽回 irreversible
- 不可量 uncountable / immeasurable
- 不可议(不可議) indescribable
- 笑不可仰 to double up with laughter
- 不可救药(不可救藥) incurable / incorrigible / beyond cure / hopeless
- 不可胜数(不可勝數) countless / innumerable
- 天机不可泄露(天機不可泄露) mysteries of heaven must not be revealed / must not be revealed / I am not at liberty to inform you.
- 主不可以不坚(主不可以不堅) a ruler cannot be irresolute
- 不可逆 irreversible
- 不可得 cannot be obtained
- 神圣不可侵犯(神聖不可侵犯) sacred / inviolable
- 命不可说(命不可說) fate cannot be foretold
- 怒不可遏 unable to restrain one's anger / in a towering rage
- 无可无不可(無可無不可) neither for nor against / indifferent
- 不可知主义(不可知主義) agnosticism
- 家丑不可外扬(家醜不可外揚) family shames must not be spread abroad / don't wash your dirty linen in public
- 不可估量 inestimable / incalculable / beyond measure
- 不可知论(不可知論) agnosticism
- 功不可没(功不可沒) one's contributions cannot go unnoticed
- 非死不可 Facebook
- 不可亿逞(不可億逞) unable to predict
- 必不可少组成(必不可少組成) absolute necessity / sine qua non
- 愚不可及 impossibly stupid
- 不可通约(不可通約) having no common measure / incommensurable / incommensurate
- 坚不可摧(堅不可摧) invulnerable, indestructible, impregnable
- 缺一不可 not a single one is dispensable / can't do without either
- 没有什么不可能(沒有什麼不可能) nothing is impossible / there's nothing impossible about it
- 不可导(不可導) not differentiable
- 一发不可收拾(一發不可收拾) things that have happened can hardly be controlled / to get out of hand
- 可遇不可求 can be discovered but not sought / one can only come across such things serendipitously
- 不可或缺 necessary / must have
- 不可言喻 inexpressible
- 不可枚举(不可枚舉) innumerable
- 不可抗力 force majeure
- 不可数(不可數) uncountable
- 不可逾越 impassable / insurmountable / insuperable
- 不可避 unavoidable
- 急不可耐 unable to wait
- 必不可少 absolutely necessary / indispensable / essential
- 机不可失，时不再来(機不可失，時不再來) Opportunity knocks but once.
- 不可同日而语(不可同日而語) mustn't speak of two things on the same day / not to be mentioned in the same breath / incomparable
- 妙不可言 too wonderful for words
- 笑不可抑 to laugh irrepressibly
- 未尝不可(未嘗不可) to reason why not
- 不可撤销信用证(不可撤銷信用證) irrevocable letter of credit
- 牢不可拔 so secure that it cannot be pulled out / so stubborn that it cannot be changed
- 可以意会，不可言传(可以意會，不可言傳) can be understood, but not described / mysterious and subtle
- 不可常 for not long
- 锐不可当(銳不可當) unstoppable / hard to hold back
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- 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 66
- 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 59
- Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 50
- 成公 Lord Cheng The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 38
- 孫子兵法 The Art of War by Sunzi Art of War 孫子兵法 — count: 33
- 僖公 Lord Xi The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 33
- 哀公 Lord Ai The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 30
- 卷十四 魏書十四 程郭董劉蔣劉傳 Volume 14: Book of Wei 14 - Biographies of Cheng, Dong, Guo, Liu, Jiang, and Liu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 29
- 卷十五 兵略訓 Chapter 15: Military Planning Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 29
- 卷二十 泰族訓 Chapter 20: superior Lineage Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 28
Collocations
- 不可谓 (不可謂) 無別不可謂禮 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 12
- 不可失 (不可失) 善不可失 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 6
- 不可使 (不可使) 云不可使 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧節南山之什‧雨無正 Minor odes of the kingdom - Jie Nan Shan Zhi Shen - Yu Wu Zheng — count: 4
- 不可知 (不可知) 信不可知 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 3
- 不可方 (不可方) 不可方思 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧漢廣 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Han Guang — count: 3
- 不可泳 (不可泳) 不可泳思 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧漢廣 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Han Guang — count: 3
- 不可道 (不可道) 而不可道也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧鄘‧牆有茨 Lessons from the states - Odes of Yong - Qiang You Ci — count: 2
- 不可敌 (不可敵) 有德不可敵 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 2
- 恶不可 (惡不可) 惡不可長 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 2
- 子不可 (子不可) 甯武子不可 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 2