不常

bùcháng
  1. (dated, literary) bizarre; out of the ordinary
  2. (dated, literary) extraordinary; excellent
  3. (dated, literary) not in a fixed pattern; irregularly
  4. (dated, literary, euphemistic) death
  5. bizarre; out of the ordinary
  6. death
  7. extraordinary; excellent
  8. not in a fixed pattern; irregularly
  9. not often; seldom; rarely

Wiktionary

Examples

我不常笑。

I don't laugh very often.

Source: Tatoeba

我们不常做。

We don't do it very often.

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我不常穿睡衣。

I usually don't wear pajamas.

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我不常见到他。

I don't see much of him.

I don't meet him so often.

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但是他不常微笑。

But he did not often smile.

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他渐渐地不常登门了.

His visits became less frequent as time passed.

Source: Tatoeba

不幸的是，大多数年轻人都不常说方言了。

Sadly, most young people speak dialect only rarely.

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住院医生们所有时间都在工作，所以他们不常出外。

Hospital doctors don't go out very often as their work takes up all their time.

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Entry Composition

1 不 bù
  1. no; not so
  2. (bound form) not; un-
=2 常 Cháng surname Chang
=2 常 cháng
  1. always
  2. ever
  3. often
  4. frequently
  5. common
  6. general
  7. constant

Containing this entry

千里马常有，而伯乐不常有 qiānlǐmǎchángyǒu,ér Bólèbùchángyǒu
  1. lit. there are many swift horses, but very few who can spot them (proverb)
  2. fig. many have talent, but few can recognize talent when they see it
好景不常 hǎojǐngbùcháng