Character Details
| cannot; must not; should not | Ascii: — | w537 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 不能 | bùnéng | boo-nuhng | 4+2 | 下 (down) + 雨 (雨 rain radical) | 不能 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I can't wait any longer | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; negation‑modal | 不 (not) + 能 (厶 private + 月 body) | ||||||||||
| Not (不) able (能) — cannot. | |||||||||||