不足

bù zú

HSK 5freq #2971

Meanings

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bù zú

1.insufficient
2.lacking
3.deficiency
4.not enough
5.inadequate
6.not worth
7.cannot
8.should not

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Wiktionary

1.insufficient; inadequate; lacking
2.inadequacy; deficiency; dearth; shortage; want; lack; not enough
3.to be inadequate; to be deficient; to have a shortage
4.to be less than
5.not worth ... ; no need to ...
6.cannot

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Stroke order

Components

不丆卜

足口龰

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Characters

Example sentences

光看表面是不足夠的。
All that glitters is not gold.
他的食物供给不足的的时候，他不得不去找新的地方居住。
When his food supply ran short, he had to look for a new place to live.

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Synonyms

不滿不满貧乏贫乏缺口不夠不够不敷乏達乏达匱乏匮乏欠欠缺短少短缺絕乏绝乏缺乏缺如缺少缺欠缺缺虧亏貧贫闕乏阙乏闕如

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Related words

不足月 premature (birth, child)不足道 inconsiderable 微不足道 (idiom) negligible; insignificant 美中不足 everything is fine except for one small defect (idiom); the fly in the ointment 不足为道 to be not worth mentioning 不足为奇 not at all surprising (idiom)不足为训 not to be taken as an example 不足齿数 not worth mentioning 先天不足 to suffer from a congenital deficiency; to have an inherent weakness 贪心不足 avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied 不足为虑 to give no cause for anxiety; nothing to worry about 卑不足道 not worth mentioning