不

not, no

No. 5 most used · 2.1% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 48.

Also read: bú 不是

How it's built

A single shape: nothing smaller to learn.

A way to remember it

A line across the top stops what grows beneath it: not.

Words

• 不是

  bú shì

  no; is not; not
• 不会

  bú huì

  improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc)
• 不能

  bù néng

  cannot; must not; should not
• 不要

  bú yào

  don't!; must not
• 不想

  bù xiǎng

  unexpectedly; to one's surprise
• 对不起

  duì bu qǐ

  I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint

Sentences

• 不知作者在说什么。

  bù zhī zuò zhě zài shuō shén me

  It is not clear what the writer is trying to say.
• 不要小看我的力量。

  bú yào xiǎo kàn wǒ de lì liang

  Don't underestimate my power.
• 不要相信他说的话。

  bú yào xiāng xìn tā shuō de huà

  Don't believe what he says.
• 不要说话，好不好？

  bú yào shuō huà hǎo bu hǎo

  Quit talking, will you?

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.