不 · bù
no, not; un-; negative prefix
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
no, not; un-; negative prefix
- Mandarin
- bù
- Cantonese
- bat1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 不 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
フ ブ フツ フウ ヒ ホツ ホチ ブチ いなやKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 부
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
- 불
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+4E0D
- Radical
- 一 · 1
- Strokes
- 4 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
4 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 不
Character connections
Follow this component
Sentence context · 7 matches
我一点都不怕你。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #393879 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #393877 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CK
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- pjuw · 甫鳩 反切 · #1005
- Middle Chinese
- pjuwX · 方久 反切 · #1938
- Middle Chinese
- pjut · 分勿 反切 · #3339
- Middle Chinese
- pwot · 反切 · #4006
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 7929 · pjuw = 流開三平尤幫 · pjuwX = 流開三上尤幫 · pjut = 臻合三入文幫 · pwot = 臻合一入魂幫
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- bù
- kCantonese
- bat1
- kDefinition
- no, not; un-; negative prefix
- kTotalStrokes
- 4
- kRSUnicode
- 1.3
- kGradeLevel
- 1
- kTGH
- 2013:91
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- bù,fǒu,fōu,fū 10011.060
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- bú 0085.150 · bù 0087.100
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- bù 029.030
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- bù(23305) bu(555)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- bù粵bat1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 甫鳩 方久 分勿
- Kangxi positions
- 0076.150
- Guangyun positions
- 208.23 323.08 475.21
- GSR references
- 0999a
- Cangjie
- MF
- Four-corner
- 1090.0