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不然 de lo contrario
Stroke order
不然 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.

- 不 — 4 strokes
- 然 — 12 strokes
Senses
- not so
- no
- or else
- otherwise
- if not
- How about ...?
Related words
不然 is pronounced bùrán and means “de lo contrario”. It belongs to the HSK 5 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 不然 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.