Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「不好意思」.
Here’s the idiom 「不好意思」, with its definition and practical application described below.
① Expressing that one has to do something or is not able to do something due to social considerations. ② Shy; embarrassed.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bù hǎo yì sī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat1 hou2 yi3 si1
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
