Read Edit View history 不过 bùguò HSK2 only Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 不过 (不過) bùguò only adverb only, merely, or no more than 我不过是开个玩笑。 wǒ bùguò shì kāi gè wánxiào. I was only joking. but conjunction but or however 他很聪明，不过有点懒。 tā hěn cōngming, bùguò yǒudiǎn lǎn. He is very smart, but a bit lazy. anyway conjunction anyway, used to get back to a previous topic 不过，我们还是先吃饭吧。 bùguò, wǒmen háishi xiān chīfàn ba. Anyway, let's eat first. extremely particle used after an adjective to indicate the highest possible degree 那真是再好不过了。 nà zhēn shì zài hǎo bùguò le. That couldn't be better. Frequency Movie subtitles 695.5 per million appears in 75% of films Written text 404.1 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 4 HSK 3.0 Level 2 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
不过 (不過) bùguò only adverb only, merely, or no more than 我不过是开个玩笑。 wǒ bùguò shì kāi gè wánxiào. I was only joking. but conjunction but or however 他很聪明，不过有点懒。 tā hěn cōngming, bùguò yǒudiǎn lǎn. He is very smart, but a bit lazy. anyway conjunction anyway, used to get back to a previous topic 不过，我们还是先吃饭吧。 bùguò, wǒmen háishi xiān chīfàn ba. Anyway, let's eat first. extremely particle used after an adjective to indicate the highest possible degree 那真是再好不过了。 nà zhēn shì zài hǎo bùguò le. That couldn't be better. Frequency Movie subtitles 695.5 per million appears in 75% of films Written text 404.1 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 4 HSK 3.0 Level 2 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)