You shall not kill.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不可
cannot; should not; must not
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
cannot; should not; must not
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不可 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不可 appears in 53 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Thou shalt not kill.
You shall not pass.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不可.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不可.
Directly before
- 是不可5
- 千万不可3
- 防人之心不可2
- 觉得不可1
- 之心不可1
Directly after
- 不可忽视3
- 不可信2
- 不可无2
- 不可杀人2
- 不可侵犯2
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 不可
What does 不可 mean in Chinese?
不可 (bùkě) means cannot; should not; must not.
How do you pronounce 不可?
不可 is pronounced bùkě.
Is 不可 an HSK word?
不可 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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