不過 Simplified: 不过 On the HSK 2 vocabulary list, at CEFR level A2. bùguò ㄅㄨˋ ㄍㄨㄛˋ only merely no more than but however anyway (to get back to a previous topic) cannot be more (after adjectival) Where 不過 is used Example sentences and grammar articles using 不過 Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT