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
- 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)
- 乘人不备(乘人不備) to take by surprise
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
- 周語上 Discourses of Zhou I Guoyu 國語 — count: 2
- 卷二十一 列傳第九: 燕鳳 許謙 崔宏 張袞 鄧彥海 Volume 21 Biographies 9: Yan Feng, Xu Qian,Cui Hong, Zhang Gun, Deng Yanhai History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 2
- 卷38 刁雍 王慧龍 韓延之 袁式 Volume 38: Diao Yong, Wang Huilong, Han Yanzhi, Yuan Shi Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 2
- 滕文公下 Teng Wen Gong II Mencius 孟子 — 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
- 卷七十九 志第五十五 食貨三 Volume 79 Treatises 55: Finance and Economics 3 History of Ming 明史 — 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 一不备 (一不備) 廝輿之卒有一不備而歸者 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷六十四上 嚴朱吾丘主父徐嚴終王賈傳 Volume 64a: an, Zhu, Wuqiu, Zhufu, Xu, Yan, Zhong, Wang and Jia 1 — count: 2
- 五者不备 (五者不備) 五者不備 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十二 道應訓 Chapter 12: Responses of the Way — count: 2