HanTrace

不成

bùchéng
verbadjectiveHSK 6

“Won't do” in Chinese is 不成 (bùchéng).

Meaning

  • won't do
  • unable to
  • (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?

Example

你还能飞不成？

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

bùHSK 14 strokesno; not sochéngHSK 26 strokesshort name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]

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