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不同

bù tóng 4–2

different; distinct; not the same; not alike

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
不 · 同
Syllables
2
bù tóng
Frequency
Very common
corpus count 458

Part of speech: a,an

Character by character

  • 不bù4 strokesHSK 1no, not; un-; negative prefix
  • 同tóng6 strokesHSK 1 traditional 衕same, similar; together with

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我不同意。

    Wǒ bù tóng yì

    I don't think I agree.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 不同. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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