未必

wèi bì

HSK 4freq #7646

Meanings

CC-CEDICT

wèi bì

1.not necessarily
2.maybe not

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Wiktionary

1.may not; not necessarily

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Stroke order

Components

未木㇐

必心㇓

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Characters

Example sentences

这项工作未必容易。
This work is not necessarily easy.
發光的未必都是金子。
All that glitters is not gold.
對某人有利的對另外的人未必有利。
One man's meat is another man's poison.

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Synonyms

不一定不必不見得不见得唔一定未嘗未尝未始未必然未見得未见得無一定无一定無定著无定著無拄拄无拄拄無的確无的确

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Related words

未必见得 not necessarily 空穴来风未必无因 wind does not come from an empty cave without reason 小时了了，大未必佳 being bright at an early age does not necessarily bring success upon growing up (proverb)