不
bùbufǒufū HSK1

no

不 bù frequency
not adverb
Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings

我们到底去还是不去？

wǒ​men dào​dǐ qù hái​shi bù qù?

Are we going or not?

[inquiry] particle
Used at the end of a sentence to form a question, similar to 吗 ma.

我有说她什么坏话不？

wǒ yǒu shuō tā shén​me huài huà bù?

Did I say anything bad about her?

Bu
A Chinese surname.
very
Used for emphasis before certain adjectives (especially after 好 hǎo) to mean how or so, as in 好不 hǎo​bù
不 bu
[potential] particle
Used between a verb and its result to show that the action cannot achieve that result; used as the negative form of the 得 de potential construction

我听不见你在说什么。

wǒ tīng bu jiàn nǐ zài shuō shén​me.

I can't hear what you're saying.

我们永远出不去了。

wǒ​men yǒng​yuǎn chū bu qù le.

We're never getting out.

不 fǒu
whether or not
(literary) Used at the end of a sentence to ask whether something is true; same as 否 fǒu
不 fū
calyx
(literary) The sepals of a flower; the outer protective parts of a flower bud.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
4th most common 11565.2 per million
Movie subtitles
6th most common 19313.7 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
20543.4 per million appears in 100% of films
Written text
3726.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+4E0D

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)