不管 bùguǎn▶ bất kể

Stroke order

不管 is written in 18 strokes across 2 characters.

• 不 — 4 strokes
• 管 — 14 strokes

Senses

1. not to be concerned
2. regardless of
3. no matter

Example sentences

• 不管下不下雨，我都去。Bùguǎn xià bu xià yǔ, wǒ dōu qù.No matter whether it rains, I will go.
• 不管多难，他都不放弃。Bùguǎn duō nán, tā dōu bú fàngqì.No matter how hard it is, he does not give up.

Related words

• 不仅không chỉ
• 不过Tuy nhiên
• 尽管mặc dù
• 管理Hành chính
• 不得不phải
• 受不了Không thể chịu đựng

不管 is pronounced bùguǎn and means “bất kể”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 不管 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.