# 美中不足 (měizhōngbùzú)

In Mandarin Chinese, 美中不足 (měizhōngbùzú) means “a fly in the ointment; slight flaw”. It is part of the HSK 7–9 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: a fly in the ointment; slight flaw
- Pinyin: měizhōngbùzú (mei3 zhong1 bu4 zu2)
- HSK 3.0 · Level 7–9

## Examples

- 美中不足的是这里离地铁太远。
  Měizhōng-bùzú de shì zhèlǐ lí dìtiě tài yuǎn.
  The only slight flaw is that it is too far.

## Characters

- [美](https://hanziro.com/word/mei-beautiful/) (měi): beautiful; pretty
- [中](https://hanziro.com/word/zhong-middle/) (zhōng): middle; center
- [不](https://hanziro.com/word/bu-not/) (bù): not; no
- [足](https://hanziro.com/word/zu-sufficient/) (zú): sufficient; ample

https://hanziro.com/word/mei-zhong-bu-zu-fly-in-ointment/

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