HSK 6 · Function Words

不顾 búgù “regardless of” in Chinese

Traditional 不顧

What 不顾 means

  1. regardless of
  2. in spite of
  3. to disregard

How to say 不顾

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale不bú2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale顾gù4th tone, falling

Tone change. 不 is bù on its own. Before a fourth tone it changes to bú, and textbooks write that change in, as here. How tone changes work

不顾 in a sentence

  1. 他不顾我们的一再劝告。

    Tā búgù wǒmen de yízài quàngào.

    He ignored our repeated advice.

    Sentence #10498055 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他不顾他父亲的忠告。

    Tā búgù tā fùqīn de zhōnggào.

    He ignored his father’s advice.

    Sentence #833008 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 不顾 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 sobú in 不顾

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 顾 (gù) with each of its parts in a different colour
顾gùto look after
  • 厄adversity · èSound part
  • 页page · xiéMeaning part

页 hints at the meaning (page); 厄 (è) hints at the sound. Compare it with gù.

How to write 不顾

不 4 strokes · 顾 10 strokes

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

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

Words related to 不顾

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 顾

照顾zhàogu · take care of顾客gùkè · customer回顾huígù · to look back顾虑gùlǜ · worry顾问gùwèn · adviser不屑一顾búxièyígù · to disdain后顾之忧hòugùzhīyōu · worries back home统筹兼顾tǒngchóujiāngù · to plan as a whole and consider all aspects

More words: Function Words & Grammar

便于biànyú · easy to并非bìngfēi · to not be不得已bùdéyǐ · to have no choice不妨bùfáng · might as well不禁bùjīn · can’t help (doing)不堪bùkān · unbearable不愧búkuì · to be worthy of不料búliào · unexpectedly

FAQs

不顾 (búgù) means “regardless of” or “in spite of”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it búgù: bú with a 2nd tone, then gù with a 4th tone. 不 is bù on its own. Before a fourth tone it changes to bú, and textbooks write that change in, as here. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 不顾 is written 不顧. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bugu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 不顾 from the suggestions. Typing bugu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
不顾 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.