不过 不過
不过不過 in English
- only / merely / no more than / but / however / anyway (to get back to a previous topic) / cannot be more (after adjectival)
Stroke order
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How it used to be written
不
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 21 forms
过
These are the forms of 過, the traditional character: 过 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 15 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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人生只不过是场梦罢了。
Life is only a dream.
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什么都逃不过我的法眼。
Nothing escapes my eye.
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他只不过是个诗人。
He is nothing but a poet.
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他喘不过气来了。
He was out of breath.
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他跑得太快，以至於喘不过气来。
He ran so fast that he was out of breath.
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你只不过是一个学生。
You are nothing but a student.
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你的邮箱为什么发不过去邮件呢，奇怪。
Strange, why can't I send any mail to your mail box?
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地球只不过是悬浮在太空中的一个球体。
The earth is just a sphere suspended in space.