要 不

yàobù

conjunctionHSK 7-9

“Otherwise” in Chinese is 要不 (yàobù).

Meaning

otherwise
or else
how about...?

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either... (or...)

Example

要不我们找时间喝一顿。

Perhaps we could get a drink sometime.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

yàoHSK 19 strokesto demand; to coerce bùHSK 14 strokesno; not so

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