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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

没用

méiyòng

useless

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

useless

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 没用 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 没用 appears in 39 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你已经没用了。nǐ yǐ jīng méi yòng le。

You're already useless.

借口是没用的。jiè kǒu shì méi yòng de。

There is no use in making excuses.

再问他也没用。zài wèn tā yě méi yòng。

It is no use asking him again.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 没用.

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

Directly before

  • 也没用11
  • 是没用7
  • 完全没用2
  • 真没用2
  • 个没用2

Directly after

  • 没用的11
  • 没用了3
  • 没用安全带1
  • 没用离开1
  • 没用完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 没用

What does 没用 mean in Chinese?

没用 (méiyòng) means useless.

How do you pronounce 没用?

没用 is pronounced méiyòng.

Is 没用 an HSK word?

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

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