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

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

Used at the end of a sentence to form a question, similar to 吗 ma.

(literary) Used at the end of a sentence to ask whether something is true; same as 否 fǒu

(literary) The sepals of a flower; the outer protective parts of a flower bud.

A Chinese surname.

Used for emphasis before certain adjectives (especially after 好 hǎo) to mean how or so, as in 好不 hǎo​bù