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不但

bù dàn

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

不但 (bù dàn) means "not only (... but also ...)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 不但 means

1. not only (... but also ...)

The characters in 不但

• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 但dànbut; yet; however; still; merely; only; just

Sounds the same

Read bù dàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 不惮(literary) unafraid

Where 不但 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Logical connectives & conjunctions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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