不但

不但 bùdàn in a sentence

Not only

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 2 sentences

不但 (bùdàn) means Not only. Below are 2 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

这个房间 不但 大,而且很干净。

Zhège fángjiān búdàn dà, érqiě hěn gānjìng.

This room is not only big, it's also very clean.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 不但

不但 会说汉语,而且说得很好。

Tā búdàn huì shuō Hànyǔ, érqiě shuō de hěn hǎo.

He not only speaks Chinese, he speaks it very well.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 不但

Questions about 不但

How is 不但 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 不但 (bùdàn, "Not only"), 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.

Is 不但 an HSK word?

Yes — 不但 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 不但?

The dictionary page for 不但 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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