无
wúTraditional: 無
#1231 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
without, to have not, nothing
Word origin
The traditional form 無 once depicted a dancer holding tassels and was borrowed for the sense of having none. The simplified 无 keeps only a reduced shape. It is the literary counterpart of 没有.
- Origin
- phonetic loan
- Root
- traditional 無, borrowed for the meaning of none
Stroke order
无
Examples
。
This matter has nothing to do with me.
。
He had nothing to say.
，。
No matter what, I will go.
。
This is an uninhabited little island.
，。
He always works carefully and is beyond reproach.
无 (wú) means without, to lack or nothing. It is the more literary equivalent of 没有 and appears in many fixed expressions.
Appears in 5 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 无.
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