Pinyin: bié

don't

Example sentence

别说话,开始考试了。

Bié shuōhuà, kāishǐ kǎoshì le.

Don't talk — the exam has started.

What 别 means

(bié) is a Chinese word meaning “don't”. It belongs to the Grammar Words topic and appears at HSK 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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