yào​bu​shì HSK7

if it were not for

  1. yào conjunctionauxiliary
    if
    if; suppose; in case; used to introduce a conditional statement, often as a shortened form of 要是 yào​shi
  2. adverb
    not
    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
  3. to be
    to be; to correspond to; connects a subject to its identification, characterization, or identity