Insufficient in Chinese
insufficient · HSK 4
不够
- 不 not
- 够 enough
这些钱不够买电脑。 This money isn't enough to buy a computer.
Other ways to say insufficient
More words with 不 or 够
How do you say insufficient in Chinese?
Insufficient in Chinese is 不够 (bù gòu). You can also say 不足 (bù zú).
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.