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要不然

yào bù rán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 3-character word

要不然 (yào bù rán) means "otherwise". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 要不然 means

1. otherwise
2. or else
3. or

The characters in 要不然

• 要yàoto want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 然ráncorrect; right; so

Where 要不然 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yào–yī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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