无关

guān

Traditional: 無關

#1923 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

unrelated, to have nothing to do with, irrelevant

Word origin

A compound of 无 (wú, without) and 关 (guān, connection, relation, originally a barrier or pass), literally without connection, hence unrelated.

Origin
compound
Root
无 (wú, without) + 关 (guān, connection)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 无

Stroke order for 关

Examples

This matter has nothing to do with you.

His remarks are irrelevant to the topic.

Success has nothing to do with luck and depends entirely on effort.

This is an unimportant little problem.

Please do not let unrelated people come in.

无关 (wú guān) means to be unrelated to or have nothing to do with something, often as 与...无关. It frequently appears in the fixed phrase 无关紧要, meaning of no importance.

Add to review queue

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

Go to my review queue

This word is part of lesson 39.