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岂不
qǐ​bù

how could it not be

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
岂不 豈不 qǐ​bù
how could it not be
how couldn't; wouldn't it; used to form a rhetorical question with an underlying positive meaning, similar to 难道 nán​dào ... 不 bù

Frequency

Written text
11.3 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 可不 kě​bù

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)