不通 bùtōng
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bùtōng
adjective
illogical
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '不通'; Guoyu '不通' 1) -
bùtōng
adjective
not clear
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '不通'; Guoyu '不通' 3) -
bùtōng
adjective
different
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '不通'; Guoyu '不通' 4) -
bùtōng
adjective
blocked; obstructed
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 阻塞 (CC-CEDICT '不通'; Guoyu '不通' 5)
Contained in
- 道不通 the road was not open
- 说不通(說不通) it does not make sense
- 狗屁不通 incoherent (writing or speech); nonsensical; a load of crap
- 一窍不通(一竅不通) doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head); I don't understand a word
- 半通不通 to not fully understand
- 打不通 cannot get through (on phone)
- 想不通 unable to understand; unable to get over
- 水泄不通(水洩不通) not one drop can trickle through; impenetrable (crowd, traffic)
- 行不通 won't work; will get (you) nowhere
- 此路不通 this road is blocked; This method does not work.; Doing this is no good.
- 讲不通(講不通) it does not make sense
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷五十一 志第四 天文四 Volume 51 Treatises 4: Astronomy 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 19
- 卷五十 志第三 天文三 Volume 50 Treatises 3: Astronomy 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 15
- 卷九十七 志第五十 河渠七 Volume 97 Treatises 50: Rivers and Canals 7 History of Song 宋史 — count: 6
- 卷十三 志第三 天文下 Volume 13 Treatises 3: Astronomy Part Three Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 6
- 卷九十四 志第四十七 河渠四 Volume 94 Treatises 47: Rivers and Canals 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 5
- 卷12 志第7 禮儀七 Volume 12 Treatises 7: Rites 7 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 4
- 卷三十三 中山 Chapter 33: Zhong Shan Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 4
- 卷19 志第14 天文上 Volume 19 Treatises 14: Astronomy 1 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 4
- 卷三百十五 列傳第二百〇三 雲南土司三 Volume 315 Biographies 203: Yunnan Tribal Headmen 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 4
- 卷十八 辨物 Chapter 18: Distinguishes Things Garden of Stories 說苑 — count: 4
Collocations
- 道路不通 (道路不通) 道路不通 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 9
- 塞不通 (塞不通) 四塞不通 — Art of War 孫子兵法, 孫子兵法 The Art of War by Sunzi — count: 4
- 言语不通 (言語不通) 言語不通 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《王制》 Royal Regulations — count: 3
- 吏不通 (吏不通) 鄉吏不通七日 — Guanzi 管子, 匡君大匡第十八 Chapter 18: Correcting a Ruler from Making a Grave Error — count: 3
- 气不通 (氣不通) 氣不通於四末 — Guanzi 管子, 內業第四十九 Chapter 49: Inner Training — count: 2
- 溪谷不通 (溪谷不通) 溪谷不通 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十六上 西域傳 Volume 96a: Traditions of the Western Regions 1 — count: 2
- 不通政事 (不通政事) 其不通政事 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十一 匡張孔馬傳 Volume 81: Kuang, Zhang, Kong and Ma — count: 2
- 不通经术 (不通經術) 不通經術知古今之大禮 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《梁孝王世家》 House of Prince Xiao of Liang — count: 2
- 不通礼义 (不通禮義) 夫不通禮義之旨 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《太史公自序》 Autobiographical Afterword of the Grand Historian — count: 2
- 不通人 (不通人) 地而不通人曰伎 — Exemplary Figures 法言, 卷十二 君子 Chapter 12: A Person of Noble Character — count: 2