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没有
méi yǒu
HSK 1
haven'thasn'tdoesn't existto not have

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Grammar note

不 denies what is or will be; 没有 denies that something happened or exists. The point is keyed on 没有 rather than 没, because in this corpus 没 is usually the verb 'to drown' (冲没, 灭没).

不 and 没有 — the two negations — how often the Chinese Bible uses it

Characters

没

not, none, gone; to bury; to sink, to drown

radical 氵components ⿰氵殳
有

to have, to own, to possess; to exist

radical 月components ⿸?月

Appears in 1449 verses

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