dé​wú

[rhetorical question]

  • created reference approved 得无/得無 → 莫非 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    得无 / 得無 dé​wú

    莫非 mò​fēi

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 得无/得無 · dé​wú · [rhetorical question] — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    得无 / 得無

    dé​wú

    [rhetorical question]

    (literary) used to express doubt or to ask if something might be the case, meaning "is it not that..." or "could it be that..."; similar to [[莫非|莫非|mo4 fei1]]

    得 (literal) → 得 · dé · to permit 无 (literal) → 无/無 · wú · to not have

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense