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Mythic Mandarin

不用 (bù yòng): meaning and stroke order

不用 (bù yòng) means need not.

不用

Simplified
不用
Traditional
不用 (same form)
Pinyin
bù yòng

Stroke order of 不用

不

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

Stroke by stroke

用

  • yòng to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 不用

  1. bù yòng
    • need not

Radicals of the characters

不
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 4 strokes · built from 丆 and 卜
用
Radical 用 (Kangxi radical 101) · 5 strokes

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.

不用 in our stories

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  • 医生说他不用吃药，这两天多喝热水，别吃冷的东西。

    yīshēng shuō tā búyòng chī yào zhè liǎng tiān duō hē rè shuǐ bié chī lěng de dōngxi

    The doctor says he doesn't need medicine: for the next two days he should drink plenty of hot water and not eat anything cold.

    From the story Ice-cold watermelon HSK 2

Stories using 不用

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).