# 忍不住 (rěnbuzhù)

In Mandarin Chinese, 忍不住 (rěnbuzhù) means “cannot help (doing something)”. It is part of the HSK 5 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: cannot help (doing something)
- Pinyin: rěnbuzhù (ren3 bu5 zhu4)
- HSK 3.0 · Level 5
- HSK 2.0 · Level 5

## Examples

- 听到这个笑话，大家忍不住笑了。
  Tīngdào zhège xiàohua, dàjiā rěnbuzhù xiàole.
  Hearing the joke, everyone couldn't help laughing.

## Characters

- [忍](https://hanziro.com/word/ren-bear/) (rěn): to bear; to endure
- [不](https://hanziro.com/word/bu-not/) (bù): not; no
- [住](https://hanziro.com/word/zhu-live/) (zhù): to live; to reside

https://hanziro.com/word/ren-bu-zhu-cannot-help/

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