马虎

Pinyin: mǎ hu

careless

Example sentence

做作业不能马虎。

Zuò zuòyè bù néng mǎhu.

Don't be careless with homework.

What 马虎 means

马虎 (mǎ hu) is a Chinese word meaning “careless”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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