要不 (yàobu) means Otherwise (or - either or). Below are 4 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
要不 我们改天再去？
Yàobù wǒmen gǎi tiān zài qù?
How about we go another day instead?
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 要不
快走吧， 要不 就晚了。
Kuài zǒu ba, yàobù jiù wǎn le.
Let us hurry, or we will be late.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 要不
科学的高峰需 要不 断攀登。
Kēxué de gāofēng xūyào búduàn pāndēng.
The heights of science must be climbed without pause.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 攀登
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How is 要不 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 要不 (yàobu, "Otherwise (or - either or)"), 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 要不 an HSK word?
Yes — 要不 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 要不?
The dictionary page for 要不 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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