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Pretty good in Chinese

pretty good · HSK 2

不错 bù cuò

  1. 不 bù not
  2. 错 cuò wrong

这家饭馆的菜很不错。 The food at this restaurant is pretty good.

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Other ways to say pretty good

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How do you say pretty good in Chinese?

Pretty good in Chinese is 不错 (bù cuò). You can also say 可以 (kě yǐ).

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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