不足

bùzú

adjective HSK 5 #4,624

Meanings

HSK 3

你的经验不足。

Nǐ de jīngyàn bùzú.

Your experience is insufficient.

HSK 3

资金不足是最大的问题。

Zījīn bùzú shì zuì dà de wèntí.

Insufficient funding is the biggest problem.

HSK 7-9

我们需要改正不足之处。

Wǒmen xūyào gǎizhèng bùzú zhī chù.

We need to correct our shortcomings.

usage

不足 is formal. Common collocations: 不足之处, 不足为奇 (nothing strange/not surprising), 经验不足.

history

The idiom 不足为奇 literally means 'not enough to be considered strange' - i.e., not surprising at all.

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