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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

无语

wúyǔ

to remain silent

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to remain silent

02

to have nothing to say

03

(coll.) speechless

04

dumbfounded

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 无语 actually appears in real sentences.

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

这件事让你很无语吗?zhè jiàn shì ràng nǐ hěn wú yǔ ma?

No published English translation for this sentence.

我彻底无语了,你简直就是个无赖!wǒ chè dǐ wú yǔ le, nǐ jiǎn zhí jiù shì gè wú lài!

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 无语.

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

Directly before

  • 很无语1
  • 彻底无语1

Directly after

  • 无语吗1
  • 无语了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 无语

What does 无语 mean in Chinese?

无语 (wúyǔ) means to remain silent.

How do you pronounce 无语?

无语 is pronounced wúyǔ.

Is 无语 an HSK word?

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

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