Careless in Chinese
careless · HSK 4
粗心
- 粗 thick
- 心 heart
你太粗心了，又写错了字。 You're too careless; you wrote the character wrong again.
Other ways to say careless
More words with 粗 or 心
How do you say careless in Chinese?
Careless in Chinese is 粗心 (cū xīn). You can also say 马虎 (mǎ hu), 草 (cǎo), 随便 (suí biàn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.