Why don't we go home?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
何不
why not?
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
why not?
02
why not do (sth)?
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 何不 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 何不 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Why don't we try that again?
Why don't you give her some flowers?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 何不.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 何不.
Directly before
- 我们何不2
- 你何不1
Directly after
- 何不回家1
- 何不送给1
- 何不在1
- 何不直接1
- 何不再试一次1
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 何不
What does 何不 mean in Chinese?
何不 (hébù) means why not?.
How do you pronounce 何不?
何不 is pronounced hébù.
Is 何不 an HSK word?
何不 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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