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不过 bùguò

不过 bùguò Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 6 English Translations of the word 不过 bùguò .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
bùguò | bu4 guo4
English translation
only
merely
no more than
but
however
anyway (to get back to a previous topic)

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Traditional form

不過

Part of speech

Conjunction / 连词 lián cí Lián cí
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Etymology of 不过 bùguò

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Type

ideographic

Explanation

Pictograph of sepals of a flower. The meaning "no" is a phonetic loan.

Positional decomposition

Number of Strokes

4
Guò

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. chuò represents the meaning and guō represents the sound. The simplified character Guò was adapted from the cursive form of the traditional character guò .

Phonetic compound

guō

Semantic compound

chuò

Positional decomposition

辶寸

Number of Strokes

6

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Example sentences using 不过 bùguò

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zhǐ xiǎng 大声 dà shēng jiào 一阵 yī zhèn , jiào 自己 zìjǐ 快要 kuài yào biē 透不过气 lái le .

He wanted to shout; he was suffocating.

作为 zuòwéi míng 足球 zú qiú 队员 duì yuán , shuí dōu chāo 不过 bùguò .

As a football player he is second to none.

不过 bùguò zhè dōu shì 题外 huà . ” yòu huàn le kǒu shuì .

All this is a digression,'he added in a different tone.

不过 bùguò , yāo shì dào 欧洲 Ōuzhōu , jiù Néng 看到 qún 国王 guówáng ,到处 dàochù luàn 窜乱 tiào . ”

But if you was to go to Europe you'd see a raft of'em hopping around. "

承认 chéngrèn rén jiē yǒu Cuò 不过 bùguò shì 正视 zhèng shì 人性 rénxìng 而已 éryǐ .

The recognition of fallibility is simply an acknowledgment of our humanity.

不过 bùguò Decomposition

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不过 bùguò Compounds

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    • fǒu
      • , , , , , ,
      • pēi , pēi , , , , pēi , , , piě , , , , , , , , , ,
    • Huán , huài , bēi , 怀 Huái , Huán , wāi , nāo , béng , , , , piān , pēi , póu , fóu , , , , , biáo , , bēi , , , , , ,
  • Guò
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