不可避

bùkěbì

adjective

Meanings

1 unavoidable
2 inescapable

Characters

Examples

这场冲突几乎是不可避的。

Zhè chǎng chōngtū jīhū shì bùkěbì de.

This conflict was almost unavoidable.

随着技术进步，变化不可避。

Suízhe jìshù jìnbù, biànhuà bùkěbì.

As technology advances, change is inescapable.

Tips

mistakes

The everyday phrase is 不可避免 (bùkě bìmiǎn, four characters); 不可避 alone reads as more terse / literary and is less common in modern speech. Avoid using 不可避 in casual conversation — pick 不可避免 instead.

Stroke Order

不 bù

可 kě

避 bì