薄情

bóqíng
adjective #40,822

Meanings

  1. 1 fickle in love
  2. 2 heartless; unfeeling

Examples

HSK 5
Tā shì ge bóqíng de rén, fēnshǒu hòu hěnkuài jiù bǎ tā wàng le.
He is a fickle man: soon after they broke up he had forgotten her.
HSK 7-9
Bié guài tā bóqíng, tā yě yǒu zìjǐ de nánchu.
Don't call her heartless; she has her own difficulties.

Tips

mistakes
薄 is read bó here, the literary reading used for abstract senses, as in 薄弱 (weak) and 刻薄 (mean). The everyday reading báo is for physical thinness, as in 薄片 (thin slice). In old songs and opera a faithless man is a 薄情郎.

Stroke Order

薄 báo
情 qíng