HSK 5 vocabularyHSK 3.0

不足

bùzú

insufficient

HSK 5

Meaning of 不足 in English

bùzúHSK 5verb, nounSyllabus #2082
  1. insufficient
  2. lacking
  3. deficiency
  4. not enough
  5. inadequate
  6. not worth
  7. cannot
  8. should not

Example sentences

  1. 他的食物供给不足的的时候,他不得不去找新的地方居住。
    tā de shí wù gōng jǐ bù zú de de shí hòu, tā bù dé bù qù zhǎo xīn de dì fāng jū zhù。
    When his food supply ran short, he had to look for a new place to live.
    Tatoeba #1990207 by sunnywqing · #286791 by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
  2. 光看表面是不足夠的。
    guāng kàn biǎo miàn shì bù zú gòu de。
    All that glitters is not gold.
    Tatoeba #806211 by Martha · #20086 by Swift · CC BY 2.0 FR

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Level, pinyin and part of speech: HSK Syllabus (CLEC, Nov 2025). Definitions: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sources & licences