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不像话

不像话 bùxiànghuà

不像话 bùxiànghuà Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 3 English Translations of the word 不像话 bùxiànghuà .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
bùxiànghuà | bu4 xiang4 hua4
English translation
unreasonable
shocking
outrageous

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About 不像话 bùxiànghuà

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Traditional form

不像話

Part of speech

Idiomatic phrase / 习用语 Xí yòngyǔ
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Etymology of 不像话 bùxiànghuà

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Type

ideographic

Explanation

Pictograph of sepals of a flower. The meaning "no" is a phonetic loan.

Positional decomposition

Number of Strokes

4
xiàng

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. rén represents the meaning and xiàng represents the sound.

Phonetic compound

xiàng

Semantic compound

rén

Positional decomposition

亻象

Number of Strokes

13
huà

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Simplified form of huà . Phonosemantic compound. yán represents the meaning and shé represents the sound.

Positional decomposition

讠舌

Number of Strokes

8

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Example sentences using 不像话 bùxiànghuà

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zhè 太不像话 le 我们 wǒmen 再也 zài yě 不能容忍下去 xià qù 了。

It's outrageous, and we won't stand for it any more.

只是 zhǐ shì 要求 yāoqiú 英格丽不要 bù yào zài 这么 zhè me 不像话 bùxiànghuà le

He asked only that Ingrid stop behaving so scandalously.

不像话 bùxiànghuà Decomposition

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不像话 bùxiànghuà Compounds

See all 54 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 不像话 bùxiànghuà in their composition.

    • fǒu
      • , , , , , ,
      • pēi , pēi , , , , pēi , , , piě , , , , , , , , , ,
    • Huán , huài , bēi , 怀 Huái , Huán , wāi , nāo , béng , , , , piān , pēi , póu , fóu , , , , , biáo , , bēi , , , , , ,
  • 像话 xiàng huà
    • huà
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