不成

bùchéng

won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?

verbadjectiveparticle HSK 3.0 · Band 6

Watch it being written

Every character draws itself, stroke by stroke. Then grab the brush: trace it yourself and hear the word when you finish.

Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

See it in sentences

不吃饭可不成。

Skipping meals will not do.

你这样说话不成。

You cannot talk like that.