fǒu

Traditional: 否

#5118 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

no; not; whether (formal bound morpheme)

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Stroke order for 否

Examples

Please tell me whether you agree.

chí

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".

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 否.

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This word is part of lesson 103.