否
Meanings
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- 1.clogged
- 2.evil
- 1.to negate
- 2.to deny
- 3.not
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Wiktionary
- 1.nay; no; negative
- 2.not
- 3.final interrogative particle
- 4.to block; to obstruct
- 5.to denounce; to censure
- 6.to become extinct
- 7.poverty-stricken; poor
- 8.evil; vile
- 9.12th hexagram of the I Ching
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *brɯʔ, *pɯʔ): phonetic 不 (OC *pɯ, *pɯʔ, *pɯ', “not”) + semantic 口 (“mouth”). Similar to 咅. See etymology of 不.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
否極泰來。
After a storm comes a calm.
我無法否認。
I can't deny it.
她否認見過他。
She denied having met him.
沒人會否認的。
No one would deny that.
他否認曾寫信給我。
He denied having written to me.
他否認打破了窗口。
He denies having broken the window.
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Derived terms
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