"No" in Chinese

A sign warning against uncivilized behavior in the main bazaar in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang region (Bloomberg):

Source:  "China’s Brutal ‘Boarding Schools’:  Beijing’s indoctrination centers for Muslim Uighurs are stark violations of human rights", by the Editorial Board, NYT (3/17/19)

The sign says:

duì bù wénmíng xíngwéi shuō NO

对不文明行为 说 NO

"say NO to uncivilized behavior"

Although it may seem a bit odd to say "[just] say no" in English, it's no more odd to say "[zhǐ] shuō bù [只]说不" ("[just] say no") in Mandarin.

Readings

• "Creeping Romanization in Chinese" (8/30/12)
• "Nerd, geek, PK: Creeping Romanization (and Englishization), part 2" (3/5/13)
• "The Westernization of Chinese" (9/6/12)
• "Creeping English in Chinese" (1/23/17)
• "Character amnesia and the emergence of digraphia" (9/25/13)
• "Substituting Pinyin for unknown Chinese characters " (9/3/13)
• "A child's substitution of Pinyin (Romanization) for characters " (11/9/14)
• "Dumpling ingredients and character amnesia " (10/18/14)
• "The naturalness of emerging digraphia" (7/28/17)
• "Digraphia and intentional miswriting" (3/12/15)
• "Pinyin as subversive subtext" (3/17/17)
• "YouCool" (3/7/08)
• "Official digraphia" (9/13/18)
• "Biscriptal juxtaposition in Chinese, part 3" (4/24/17)
• "Biscriptal juxtaposition in Chinese, part 2" (10/15/14)
• "Biscriptal juxtaposition in Chinese" (8/17/14)
• "A New Morpheme in Mandarin" (4/26/11)
• "Zhao C: a Man Who Lost His Name" (2/27/09)
• "A trilingual, biscriptal note (with emoji)" (2/5/17)
• "East Asian multilingual pop culture" (10/31/17)
• "'Let's' in Chinese " (10/19/17)
• "Keep on -inging " (10/30/17)
• "A New Morpheme in Mandarin" (4/26/11)
• "Zhao C: a Man Who Lost His Name" (2/27/09)
• "A trilingual, biscriptal note (with emoji)" (2/5/17)
• "Digraphia and intentional miswriting" (3/12/15)
• "I don't feel OK" (12/27/18)
• "Sino-English graphic tour de force" (12/2018)
• "Creeping Romanization in Chinese, part 4" (12/15/18)
• "English as an official language in Taiwan" (12/8/18)
• "I don't feel OK" (12/27/18)
• "Pinyin without Chinese characters" (7/5/15)
• "Pinyin for the Prez" (10/25/18)
• "The actuality of emerging digraphia" (3/10/19)