(huò) - or, either...or in Mandarin
huòTraditional: 或
HSK 3
#263 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
or, either...or
Word origin
或 (huò, 'or') originally depicted a settlement (口, an enclosure) guarded by a weapon (戈, a dagger-axe), an early form of 'domain'. It was later borrowed for the conjunction 'or' and the sense of 'perhaps'.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 或 (口 enclosure + 戈 dagger-axe, originally 'domain', borrowed for 'or')
Stroke order
或
Examples
。
Either you or he coming is fine.
，。
Either you go or I go.
。
Success or failure.
红笔蓝笔。
A red pen or blue pen will do.
。
He may change his mind.
或 (huò) means or, either...or. It is used as a conjunction in everyday Mandarin speech.
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 或.
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