He has nothing in him.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一无是处
(idiom) not one good point; everything about it is wrong
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(idiom) not one good point; everything about it is wrong
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一无是处 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一无是处 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Those good-for-nothing layabouts were sacked.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一无是处.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一无是处.
Directly before
- 人一无是处1
- 那些一无是处1
Directly after
- 一无是处的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 一无是处
What does 一无是处 mean in Chinese?
一无是处 (yīwúshìchù) means (idiom) not one good point; everything about it is wrong.
How do you pronounce 一无是处?
一无是处 is pronounced yīwúshìchù.
Is 一无是处 an HSK word?
一无是处 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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