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不要

HSK 1#221 by frequencyradical 一

bù yào["d"]

don't!; must not

Examples

不要死！

Don't die!

不要动。

Don't move.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.