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Mythic Mandarin

不可 (bù kě): meaning and stroke order

不可 (bù kě) means cannot; should not; must not.

不可

Simplified
不可
Traditional
不可 (same form)
Pinyin
bù kě

Stroke order of 不可

不

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

Stroke by stroke

可

  • kě (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit
  • kè used in 可汗[ke4 han2]
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 不可

  1. bù kě
    • cannot; should not; must not

Radicals of the characters

不
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 4 strokes · built from 丆 and 卜
可
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 5 strokes · built from 丁 and 口

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.

不可 in our stories

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  • 可是，金山寺的和尚法海一眼就看出白素贞是蛇妖。他认为人和妖非分开不可，就去找许仙，告诉他妻子的真实身份。

    kěshì Jīnshān Sì de héshang Fǎhǎi yìyǎn jiù kàn chū Bái Sùzhēn shì shéyāo tā rènwéi rén hé yāo fēi fēnkāi bùkě jiù qù zhǎo Xǔ Xiān gàosu tā qīzi de zhēnshí shēnfèn

    But Fahai, a monk of Jinshan Temple, saw at a glance that Bai Suzhen was a snake spirit. Believing that humans and spirits simply had to be kept apart, he went to Xu Xian and told him his wife's true identity.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 不可

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).