要不是 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. yàobushì ㄧㄠˋ ˙ㄅㄨ ㄕˋ if it were not for but for Character by character 要(yào)want 不(bu)no 是(shì)be A Chinese word or character, or English Search 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