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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

有无

yǒuwú

to have or have not

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to have or have not

02

surplus and shortfall

03

tangible and intangible

04

corporeal and incorporeal

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 有无 actually appears in real sentences.

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

检点一下工具,看有无丢失。jiǎn diǎn yī xià gōng jù, kàn yǒu wú diū shī。

Check the tools and see if anything is missing.

有有我之境,有无我之境。yǒu yǒu wǒ zhī jìng, yǒu wú wǒ zhī jìng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 有无.

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

Directly before

  • 看有无1

Directly after

  • 有无丢失1
  • 有无我之境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 有无

What does 有无 mean in Chinese?

有无 (yǒuwú) means to have or have not.

How do you pronounce 有无?

有无 is pronounced yǒuwú.

Is 有无 an HSK word?

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

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