HSK 6 · Function Words

不妨 bùfáng “might as well” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 不妨 means

  1. might as well
  2. there is no harm in

How to say 不妨

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale不bù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale妨fáng2nd tone, rising

不妨 in a sentence

  1. 你不妨告诉我一切。

    Nǐ bùfáng gàosu wǒ yíqiè.

    You might as well tell me everything.

    Sentence #775861 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 不妨 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 不 (bù) drawn as one shape
不bùno; not so

不 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidPicture a bar 一 across the top that nothing below can get past: not, no.

The character 妨 (fáng) with each of its parts in a different colour
妨fángto hinder
  • 女woman · nǚMeaning part
  • 方square · fāngSound part

女 hints at the meaning (woman); 方 (fāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with fáng.

How to write 不妨

不 4 strokes · 妨 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

不妨 (bùfáng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 不妨 (bùfáng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 不妨

Words with 不

不bù · no不要bùyào · don’t!不客气bú kèqi · you’re welcome对不起duìbuqǐ · sorry不错bùcuò · not bad不好意思bùhǎoyìsi · to feel embarrassed不但búdàn · not only不同bùtóng · different不少bùshǎo · quite a few不见bújiàn · to be missing

Words with 妨

妨碍fáng'ài · to hinder

More words: Function Words & Grammar

本身běnshēn · itself便于biànyú · easy to并非bìngfēi · to not be不得已bùdéyǐ · to have no choice不顾búgù · regardless of不禁bùjīn · can’t help (doing)不堪bùkān · unbearable不愧búkuì · to be worthy of

FAQs

不妨 (bùfáng) means “might as well” or “there is no harm in”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bùfáng: bù with a 4th tone, then fáng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 不妨 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bufang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 不妨 from the suggestions. Typing bufang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
不妨 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.