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Mythic Mandarin

毫不 (háo bù): meaning and stroke order

毫不 (háo bù) means hardly, not in the least, not at all.

毫不

Simplified
毫不
Traditional
毫不 (same form)
Pinyin
háo bù

Stroke order of 毫不

毫

  • háo hair; drawing brush
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

不

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 毫不

  1. háo bù
    • hardly
    • not in the least
    • not at all

Radicals of the characters

毫
Radical 毛 (Kangxi radical 82) · 11 strokes
不
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 4 strokes · built from 丆 and 卜

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.

毫不 in our stories

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  • 可是那个邻居一口咬定自己毫不知情，说案发那天晚上一直在家睡觉，官员也找不到任何证据。

    kěshì nà gè línjū yìkǒuyǎodìng zìjǐ háobù zhīqíng shuō ànfā nà tiān wǎnshang yìzhí zài jiā shuìjiào guānyuán yě zhǎo bú dào rènhé zhèngjù

    But the neighbour insisted he knew nothing and said he had been asleep at home all that night, and the official could find no evidence at all.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 毫不

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).