无 (wú): meaning and stroke order
无 (wú) means not to have, no, none, not, to lack, un-, -less, used in 南无.
无
- Simplified
- 无
- Traditional
- 無
- Pinyin
- wú · mó
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Stroke order of 无
无
- mó used in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]
- wú not to have; no
- 4 strokes
- Traditional form: 無
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Meaning of 无
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wú
Traditional 無
- not to have
- no
- none
- not
- to lack
- un-
- -less
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mó
Traditional 無
- used in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]
Radical and structure
- 无
- Radical 无 (Kangxi radical 71) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 尢 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 无
- 无数 wú shù countless; numberless
- 无边 wú biān without boundary; not bordered
- 无处 wú chù nowhere
- 毫无 háo wú not in the least; to completely lack
- 无辜 wú gū innocent; innocence
- 无能为力 wú néng wéi lì (idiom) powerless to do anything about it
- 无论 wú lùn no matter what or how; regardless of whether...
- 无聊 wú liáo bored; boring
- 无边无际 wú biān wú jì (idiom) boundless; limitless
- 无论如何 wú lùn rú hé (idiom) whatever the case; in any event; no matter what; by all possible means
无 in our stories
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当然，日志是船长自己写的，不能完全相信。于是她又去查了灯塔的天气记录，那天晚上同样是“无风无浪”。
dāngrán rìzhì shì chuánzhǎng zìjǐ xiě de bù néng wánquán xiāngxìn yúshì tā yòu qù chá le dēngtǎ de tiānqì jìlù nà tiān wǎnshang tóngyàng shì wú fēng wú làng
Of course, the captain had written the log himself, so it couldn't be fully trusted. So she checked the lighthouse's weather records as well; that night was likewise "no wind, no waves".
From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8
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最后两句最有名：回首向来萧瑟处，归去，也无风雨也无晴。
zuìhòu liǎng jù zuì yǒumíng huíshǒu xiànglái xiāosè chù guīqù yě wú fēngyǔ yě wú qíng
The last two lines are the most famous: "Looking back at the place where it was bleak and cold, I go home: there was neither wind and rain nor sunshine."
From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Stories using 无
- The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).