不然 bùrán HSK4 otherwise Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Showing: not so All meanings 19 bùrán 19 otherwise 17how about 1not so 1 1 sentence for 不然 (bùrán — not so) 其实不然,事情并非你想象的那样。 qíshí bùrán, shìqing bìng fēi nǐ xiǎngxiàng de nàyàng. Actually, that's not the case; things are not as you imagined. Source: Dong Chinese Dictionary