Read Edit View history 要不 yàobù HSK7 how about Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 要不 yàobù how about conjunction how about...?; used to introduce a suggestion or a proposal 要不我们去吃火锅吧？ yàobù wǒmen qù chī huǒguō ba? How about we go for hot pot? either or conjunction either... (or...); used to present two mutually exclusive alternatives 他要不就在办公室，要不就在会议室。 tā yàobù jiù zài bàngōngshì, yàobù jiù zài huìyìshì. He is either in the office or in the meeting room. otherwise conjunction otherwise; or else; used to indicate the consequence if the preceding condition is not met 快点，要不我们就迟到了。 kuài diǎn, yàobù wǒmen jiù chídào le. Hurry up, or else we'll be late. Frequency Movie subtitles 9.81 per million appears in 4% of films Written text 53.0 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 5 HSK 3.0 Level 7 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
要不 yàobù how about conjunction how about...?; used to introduce a suggestion or a proposal 要不我们去吃火锅吧？ yàobù wǒmen qù chī huǒguō ba? How about we go for hot pot? either or conjunction either... (or...); used to present two mutually exclusive alternatives 他要不就在办公室，要不就在会议室。 tā yàobù jiù zài bàngōngshì, yàobù jiù zài huìyìshì. He is either in the office or in the meeting room. otherwise conjunction otherwise; or else; used to indicate the consequence if the preceding condition is not met 快点，要不我们就迟到了。 kuài diǎn, yàobù wǒmen jiù chídào le. Hurry up, or else we'll be late. Frequency Movie subtitles 9.81 per million appears in 4% of films Written text 53.0 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 5 HSK 3.0 Level 7 Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)