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Mythic Mandarin

未必 (wèi bì): meaning and stroke order

未必 (wèi bì) means not necessarily, maybe not.

未必

Simplified
未必
Traditional
未必 (same form)
Pinyin
wèi bì

Stroke order of 未必

未

  • wèi not yet; did not
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

必

  • bì certainly; must
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 未必

  1. wèi bì
    • not necessarily
    • maybe not

Radicals of the characters

未
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 5 strokes · built from 一 and 木
必
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 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.

未必 in our stories

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  • 追不上的梦想，未必就是白追的。这，或许正是这个古老神话最动人之处。

    zhuī bú shàng de mèngxiǎng wèibì jiù shì bái zhuī de zhè huòxǔ zhèngshì zhè gè gǔlǎo shénhuà zuì dòngrén zhī chù

    A dream you cannot catch up with is not necessarily chased in vain. This, perhaps, is what is most moving about this ancient myth.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 未必

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).