不行

不行 bùxíng in a sentence

Not be good (won't do - be no good)

Full dictionary entry 3 sentences

不行 (bùxíng) means Not be good (won't do - be no good). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

光说 不行 ,得动手做。

Guāng shuō bù xíng, děi dòngshǒu zuò.

Talking isn't enough; you have to get down to doing it.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 动手

光会说 不行 ,得拿出真本事来。

Guāng huì shuō bù xíng, děi náchū zhēn běnshi lái.

Talking alone is not enough; you have to show real ability.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 本事

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From the travel phrasebook

我的卡 不行 。

Wǒ de kǎ bùxíng.

My card doesn't work.

Travel phrasebook · Paying and mobile payment

Questions about 不行

How is 不行 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 不行 (bùxíng, "Not be good (won't do - be no good)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

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