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不要

bù yào
HSK 3.0 Level 2

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Definitions

  1. 1. don't!
  2. 2. must not

Example Sentences

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不要 ！
Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 13276147)
不要 。
Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 13276152)
請 不要 問。
Source: Tatoeba.org (ID 824619)

Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.

Words Containing 不要

不要紧
bù yào jǐn

unimportant

不要在一棵树上吊死
bù yào zài yī kē shù shàng diào sǐ

don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)

不要脸
bù yào liǎn

to have no sense of shame; shameless

死不要脸
sǐ bù yào liǎn

to know no shame

Child Words of 不要

要
yào

to want; to need; to ask for

不
bù

no; not so

要
yāo

(bound form) to demand; to coerce