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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

无名

wúmíng

nameless

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

nameless

02

obscure

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 无名 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 无名 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

在无名战士的墓前献上了鲜花和花圈。zài wú míng zhàn shì de mù qián xiàn shàng le xiān huā hé huā quān。

Flowers and wreaths were laid in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

​可以用言语说出来的「道」,就不是永恒不变的「道」;可以用文字定义出来的「名」,就不是永恒不变的「名」。「无名」是天地的开端;「有名」是孕育万物的根源。​ kě yǐ yòng yán yǔ shuō chū lái de 「dào」, jiù bú shì yǒng héng bù biàn de 「dào」; kě yǐ yòng wén zì dìng yì chū lái de 「míng」, jiù bú shì yǒng héng bù biàn de 「míng」。「wú míng」 shì tiān dì de kāi duān;「yǒu míng」 shì yùn yù wàn wù de gēn yuán。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 无名.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 无名.

Directly before

  • 在无名1

Directly after

  • 无名战士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 无名

What does 无名 mean in Chinese?

无名 (wúmíng) means nameless.

How do you pronounce 无名?

无名 is pronounced wúmíng.

Is 无名 an HSK word?

无名 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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