除 非

chúfēi

conjunctionprepositionHSK 5

Meaning

only if (..., or otherwise, ...)
only when
only in the case that

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unless

Example

除非有可靠的证据，不然我们不应该相信任何事。

Unless there is reliable evidence for it, we should not believe anything.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

chúHSK 39 strokesto get rid of fēiHSK 18 strokesabbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa

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