- 不 adverbnotNegative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
- 以 prepositionby means ofto use; by means of; with; using the tool or method introduced
- 规矩 規矩 nounruleestablished rule, custom, or practice; social etiquette or manners
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- 不能 auxiliarycannotTo be unable to; to be incapable of doing something due to external circumstances or lack of ability
- 成 verbparticleto becometo become; to turn into; to change into
- squares and circlessquares and circles; the physical shape of objects; specifically refers to rules or order in the idiom 没有规矩,不成方圆