Character Details
| not; (negative prefix) | Ascii: — | w65 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 不 | bù | boo | 4 | 一 (horizontal) + 丿 (slash) + 丶 (dot) → not | 不 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Mr. T hanging from the ceiling being tortured. He is asked if he is going to talk. Spitting (a drop of saliva) in the torturer's face, he says "No" | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - Roughly, no or not, or to signify a negative. | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Can't, not allowed | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 1 - 一 | yī | ONE | one, horizontal line | single horizontal stroke | 一 丁 七 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 一 (horizontal) + 丿 (slash) + 丶 (dot) → not | 一 (stroke) | 卜 (phonetic origin) | ancient form had 卜 as phonetic | ||||||||