No. 181 in Chinese
没
"没" means "not," "not have," or "lack."
In a sentence
我今天没有去学校。
I didn't go to school today.
This sentence demonstrates that '没' is used to indicate a negative past action, functioning as a negation word to convey 'did not' or 'have not'.
这里没什么好看的。
There's nothing interesting to see here.
Here, '没' is used in a negative existential construction, expressing 'there is not' or 'there are no'.
那个时候手机还没普及。
At that time, cell phones were not yet widespread.
In this sentence, '没' is utilized to denote that a state or action had not occurred yet or was not achieved in the past.
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