(fǒu) - no; not; whether (formal bound morpheme) in Mandarin
fǒuTraditional: 否
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Translation
no; not; whether (formal bound morpheme)
Word origin
An ideographic compound of 不 (bu, not) above 口 (kou, mouth), a negation spoken aloud, hence the formal sense of no, not, or whether.
- Origin
- ideographic compound
- Root
- 不 (bu, not) + 口 (kou, mouth)
Stroke order
否
Examples
。
Please tell me whether you agree.
，。
You must go now, otherwise you'll be late.
？
Do you need any help?
。
He denied everything.
。
She rejected my idea.
否 (fǒu) is a formal bound morpheme expressing negation or "whether", found in 是否 (shì fǒu) "whether" and 否则 (fǒu zé) "otherwise".
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 否.
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