不光

bùguāng

conjunction HSK 3 #5,593

Meanings

HSK 1

学中文不光要学说，还要学写。

Xué Zhōngwén bùguāng yào xué shuō, hái yào xué xiě.

Learning Chinese requires not only speaking but also writing.

HSK 2

这次旅行不光花了很多钱，还特别累。

Zhècì lǚxíng bùguāng huā le hěnduō qián, hái tèbié lèi.

This trip not only cost a lot of money but was also exhausting.

HSK 3

不光是他，大家都不同意。

Bùguāng shì tā, dàjiā dōu bù tóngyì.

Not only him, nobody agrees.

usage

不光 is more colloquial than 不仅/不但. All three mean 'not only' and are used with 还/也.

不 bù

光 guāng