This isn't my bag.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不是
no
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
no
02
is not
03
not
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不是 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不是 appears in 1294 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
You are tired, aren't you?
This is not my type.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不是.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不是.
Directly before
- 我不是113
- 这不是95
- 他不是62
- 并不是57
- 而不是41
Directly after
- 不是吗138
- 不是我91
- 不是很66
- 不是个36
- 不是一个35
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 不是
What does 不是 mean in Chinese?
不是 (bùshì) means no.
How do you pronounce 不是?
不是 is pronounced bùshì. It also has the reading bùshi.
Is 不是 an HSK word?
不是 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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