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Mythic Mandarin

不到 (bù dào): meaning and stroke order

不到 (bù dào) means not to arrive, not reaching, insufficient, less than.

不到

Simplified
不到
Traditional
不到 (same form)
Pinyin
bù dào

Stroke order of 不到

不

  • bù no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

到

  • dào to reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 不到

  1. bù dào
    • not to arrive
    • not reaching
    • insufficient
    • less than

Radicals of the characters

不
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 4 strokes · built from 丆 and 卜
到
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 8 strokes · 至 on the left, 刂 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

不到 in our stories

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  • 说着，她抓起一块面，甩、拉、折，不到一分钟，一团面就变成了几百根细得像头发一样的面条。

    shuōzhe tā zhuā qǐ yí kuài miàn shuǎi lā zhé búdào yì fēnzhōng yì tuán miàn jiù biànchéng le jǐbǎi gēn xì de xiàng tóufa yíyàng de miàntiáo

    With that she grabbed a lump of dough—swing, stretch, fold—and in under a minute it had become several hundred noodles as fine as hair.

    From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 不到

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).