不 (bù) means No (not). Below are 24 of the 1085 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
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From the graded readers
我家离学校 不 远。
wǒ jiā lí xuéxiào bùyuǎn.
My home isn't far from school.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
我给他钱，他 不 要。
wǒ gěi tā qián, tā bùyào.
I offered him money; he wouldn't take it.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost
那天下午我很 不 高兴。
nà / nèi tiānxià wǔ wǒ hěn bù gāoxìng.
I felt low all that afternoon.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · An Anniversary Surprise
我一下子说 不 出话来。
wǒ yíxiàzi shuō bùchū huà lái.
For a moment I couldn't say anything.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Neighbour Upstairs
From the travel phrasebook
From the grammar library
我 不 是学生。
Wǒ bú shì xuésheng.
I am not a student.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 是 sentences and 很 with adjectives
明天我 不 去。
Míngtiān wǒ bú qù.
I'm not going tomorrow.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 不 vs 没 — the two negations
不 appears in 1085 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 不
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 不
How is 不 used in a sentence?
This page shows 1085 sentences using 不 (bù, "No (not)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 不 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 不 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 不 an HSK word?
Yes — 不 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 不?
The dictionary page for 不 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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