不足

bùzú

adjective/noun HSK 5 #4,624

Meanings

Nǐ de jīngyàn bù zú.

Your experience is insufficient.

Wǒmen xūyào gǎizhèng bù zú zhī chù.

We need to correct our shortcomings.

Zījīn bù zú shì zuì dà de wèntí.

Insufficient funding is the biggest problem.

usage

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

history

The idiom 不足为奇 (bù zú wéi qí) literally means 'not enough to be considered strange' — i.e., not surprising at all.

不 bù

足 zú