否则
Pinyin: fǒu zé
otherwise
Example sentence
快点，否则要迟到了。
Kuài diǎn, fǒuzé yào chídào le.
Hurry, otherwise we'll be late.
What 否则 means
否则 (fǒu zé) is an Chinese word meaning “otherwise”. It belongs to the Grammar Words topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.