过 guò
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 寸 inch
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
过意不去
guòyìbúqù
to feel apologetic; to feel bad about something
Characters in this word
意 yì
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 心 — heart
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
不 bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 他只是顺手帮我垫了车费，我却一直过意不去，坚持当天转给他。 Tā zhǐ shì shùnshǒu bāng wǒ diàn le chēfèi, wǒ què yìzhí guò yì bú qù, jiānchí dàngtiān zhuǎn gěi tā. He merely paid my fare for me out of convenience, yet I kept feeling bad about it and insisted on transferring the money to him that day.
- 让你跑这么远，我真有点过意不去。 Ràng nǐ pǎo zhème yuǎn, wǒ zhēn yǒudiǎn guò yì bú qù. Making you come all this way, I really feel a bit bad about it.
- 他总是帮我，我心里很过意不去。 Tā zǒngshì bāng wǒ, wǒ xīnlǐ hěn guò yì bú qù. He is always helping me, and I feel very uneasy about it.
Related words
- 过 guò to cross, to pass; to spend (time), to celebrate
- 不过 búguò but; however
- 超过 chāoguò to exceed; to overtake
- 过来 guòlái to come over
- 过年 guònián to celebrate Chinese New Year
- 过去 guòqù to go over; to pass by
- 过 guo ever (past experience marker)
- 见过 jiànguo to have seen before
- 经过 jīngguò to pass by; to go through
- 难过 nánguò sad
- 通过 tōngguò to pass; through
- 走过 zǒuguò to walk past