不足

bùzú

adjective/noun HSK 5 #4,624

Meanings

你的经验不足。

Nǐ de jīngyàn bùzú.

Your experience is insufficient.

我们需要改正不足之处。

Wǒmen xūyào gǎizhèng bùzú zhī chù.

We need to correct our shortcomings.

资金不足是最大的问题。

Zījīn bùzú 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.

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