巴不得 bābude▶ háo hức mong đợi

Stroke order

巴不得 is written in 19 strokes across 3 characters.

• 巴 — 4 strokes
• 不 — 4 strokes
• 得 — 11 strokes

Senses

1. (coll.) to be eager for
2. to long for
3. to look forward to

Related words

• 不免không thể tránh khỏi
• 不堪không thể chịu đựng
• 不妨thà rằng; cũng nên
• 不惜không tiếc; không ngần ngại
• 不愧xứng đáng
• 不料Bất ngờ, không ngờ

巴不得 is pronounced bābude and means “háo hức mong đợi”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 巴不得 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.