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不易

bùyì
adjectiveHSK 5

“Not easy to do sth” in Chinese is 不易 (bùyì).

Meaning

  • not easy to do sth
  • difficult
  • unchanging

Example

塑料不易燃烧。

Plastic does not burn easily.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

bùHSK 14 strokesno; not soyìHSK 38 strokesI Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1])

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Not to be confused with: 不宜 (bùyí, not suitable) · 不已 (bùyǐ, (used after a verb) endlessly; incessantly)