否 fǒu
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
否定
fǒudìng
to negate; to reject
Characters in this word
定 dìng
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Made of
- 宀 roof 疋 roll, bolt of cloth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 他否定了。 Tā fǒudìng le. He rejected it.
- 老师否定我。 Lǎoshī fǒudìng wǒ. The teacher rejects me.
- 这是否定句。 Zhè shì fǒudìng jù. This is a negative sentence.
Related words
- 否认 fǒurèn to deny
- 否则 fǒuzé otherwise
- 是否 shìfǒu whether
- 不一定 bùyídìng not necessarily
- 一定 yídìng definitely; certainly
- 定期 dìngqī regular; at regular times
- 规定 guīdìng rule
- 决定 juédìng to decide; decision
- 确定 quèdìng to be sure; to decide
- 制定 zhìdìng to make; to draw up
- 定 dìng to decide; to book
- 固定 gùdìng to fix in place; fixed