或 - Mandarin word #263

或

huò

Traditional: 或

HSK 3

#263 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

or, either...or

Stroke order

或

。

Either you or he coming is fine.

，。

Either you go or I go.

败bài。

Success or failure.

红hóng笔bǐ蓝lán笔bǐ。

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.

并

and also, moreover, furthermore

但是

but, however (formal)

而

and, but, yet (literary)

还是

or, still, had better

和

and; with

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 或.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 6.