不过

不過traditional

HSK 4#216 by frequencyradical 一

bù guò["c","d","u"]

but; however; only; merely; no more than; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)

Examples

再糟糕不过了。

That couldn't have gone any worse.

他喘不过气来了。

He was out of breath.

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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.