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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
无用
useless
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
useless
02
worthless
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 无用 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 无用 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Nothing in nature is useless.
In an empty place, an emperor has no power.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 无用.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 无用.
Directly before
- 是无用3
- 也无用1
- 空留无用1
- 有用无用1
- 金钱无用1
Directly after
- 无用的4
- 无用且1
- 无用资讯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 无用
What does 无用 mean in Chinese?
无用 (wúyòng) means useless.
How do you pronounce 无用?
无用 is pronounced wúyòng.
Is 无用 an HSK word?
无用 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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