未尝不可 — Chinese idiom
未尝不可
wèi cháng bù kě
Traditional: 未嘗不可
Meaning
- acceptable; fine; okay
Character by character
- 未wèinot yet; 8th terrestrial branch
- 尝chángto taste; to experience, to experiment with
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 可kěmay, can, -able; possibly
Idioms sharing a character
- 乳臭未干 rǔ xiù wèi gān
- 前所未有 qián suǒ wèi yǒu
- 前所未闻 qián suǒ wèi wén
- 前缘未了 qián yuán wèi liǎo
- 宝刀未老 bǎo dāo wèi lǎo
- 悬而未决 xuán ér wèi jué
- 方兴未已 fāng xīng wèi yǐ
- 方兴未艾 fāng xīng wèi ài
- 旷古未有 kuàng gǔ wèi yǒu
- 旷古未闻 kuàng gǔ wèi wén
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