bù​jǐn HSK3

not only

不仅 不僅 bù​jǐn
not only conjunction
Not just; not the only one; indicates that something exceeds a certain quantity or range.

He was not only ill, he was wounded.

Marriage is not just a personal affair.

[not only ... but also] conjunction
Connects two clauses where the second adds more information to the first; same as 不但 bù​dàn but more common in written Chinese.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
31.8 per million appears in 14% of films
Written text
194.9 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3

Cross-References

Synonym

Same as

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