要不

Pinyin: yàobù

otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...)

🏮 Chinese HSK 5 conjunction

Example sentence

要不一起到车站去?

Yàobù yīqǐ dào chēzhàn qù?

Do you want to go to the station with me?

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What 要不 means

要不 (yàobù) is an Chinese word meaning “otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...)”. It appears in the HSK 5 collection.

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HSK 5

Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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