不 bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
不像话
búxiànghuà
outrageous; improper; unacceptable
Characters in this word
像 xiàng
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 象 elephant
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
话 huà
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 舌 tongue
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 在会议纪要里随意篡改发言内容，实在不像话。 Zài huìyì jìyào lǐ suíyì cuàngǎi fāyán nèiróng, shízài búxiànghuà. Arbitrarily altering speech content in the meeting minutes is truly unacceptable.
- 你这么晚才回家，也不打电话，太不像话了！ Nǐ zhème wǎn cái huí jiā, yě bù dǎ diànhuà, tài búxiànghuà le! You come home this late and don't even call; that is outrageous!
- 把垃圾直接扔在马路上，真不像话。 Bǎ lājī zhíjiē rēng zài mǎlù shang, zhēn búxiànghuà. Throwing rubbish straight onto the road is really unacceptable.