Character Details
| but | Ascii: — | w583 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 但是 | dànshì | dan-sheuh | 4+4 | 任 (亻 person radical + 壬 ninth heavenly stem) + 何 (亻 person radical + 可 can) | 但是 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Although Chinese is difficult I am interested in it | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; conjunction | 但 (亻 person radical + 日 sun) + 是 (日 sun + 正 correct) | ||||||||||
| A person (但) facing what is correct (是) — but. | |||||||||||