IDENTITY
不bùnot; no
HSK 1Top 5
CORE MEANING
not; no
- Part of speech
- adverb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.notHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 一one radical (yī)
- strokes
- 4
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱一③
- top line
- placeholder for the lower strokes (IDS notation)
USAGE
Common words
不是bù shìis not
不对bù duìwrong
不用bù yòngno need
Graded examples
我不忙。Wǒ bù máng.HSK1
I am not busy.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 否
LEARNING
Memory aid
A sprout whose growth is cut off — "not".
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #5
- Memory aid
- imagery
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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