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不然

bù rán

HSK 4 · word 2245 of 3,000

Meaning

• not so
• no
• or else

Example sentence

Characters in 不然

• 不 bù no; not so
• 然 rán so, thus; forms adverbs, like English -ly

不 not plus 然, so. Not so, hence otherwise — it heads the alternative.

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