不很

bùhěn
not very

CEDICT

Examples

我不很开心。

I'm not very happy.

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我不很熟悉他的作品。

My acquaintance with his works is slight.

Source: Tatoeba

我也知道汤姆不很笨蛋的。

I also know that Tom isn't stupid.

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Entry Composition

1 不 bù
  1. no; not so
  2. (bound form) not; un-
2 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)

Related entries

不怎么 bùzěnme
  1. not very
  2. not particularly
不怎麼見效。

It doesn't work particularly well.

It's not working particularly well.

It's not working all that well.

It doesn't work all that well.

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不甚 bùshèn (literary) not very
有時候我會想，翻譯這些連是自己母語的人都不甚了解，一看就知道是從哪本書上抄來的句子，它的意義到底在哪裡?

Sometimes I wonder about the meaning of translating sentences that even native speakers don’t fully understand. It's clear they are sentences copied from some book; what is their true significance?

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