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舍不得 (shě bu de): meaning and stroke order

舍不得 (shě bu de) means to hate to do sth, to hate to part with, to begrudge.

舍不得

Simplified
舍不得
Traditional
捨不得
Pinyin
shě bu de

Stroke order of 舍不得

舍

  • shě to give up; to abandon; to give alms
  • Shè surname She
  • shě old variant of 捨|舍[she3]
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 捨

Stroke by stroke

不

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

Stroke by stroke

得

  • dé to obtain; to get
  • dè used in 得瑟[de4 se5]
  • de structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 舍不得

  1. shě bu de Traditional 捨不得
    • to hate to do sth
    • to hate to part with
    • to begrudge

Radicals of the characters

舍
Radical 舌 (Kangxi radical 135) · 8 strokes · 𠆢 on top, 舌 below
不
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 4 strokes · built from 丆 and 卜
得
Radical 彳 (Kangxi radical 60) · 11 strokes · 彳 on the left, 㝵 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.

舍不得 in our stories

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  • 后羿舍不得离开妻子嫦娥,就让她把药放好。

    Hòu Yì shěbude líkāi qīzi Cháng'é jiù ràng tā bǎ yào fàng hǎo

    Hou Yi couldn't bear to leave his wife Chang'e, so he had her keep the medicine safe.

    From the story Chang'e flies to the moon HSK 3

  • 虽然样子很厉害,但是它非常善良,走路的时候连小草都舍不得踩。

    suīrán yàngzi hěn lìhai dànshì tā fēicháng shànliáng zǒulù de shíhou lián xiǎo cǎo dōu shěbude cǎi

    It may look fierce, but it is very kind: when it walks it cannot bear to tread on even a blade of grass.

    From the story The qilin HSK 4

Stories using 舍不得

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).