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not to have / no / none / not / to lack / un- / -less
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Just inside the space station's entrance, Diogenes is annoyed by Willy Walrus, who's playing his flute. Diogenes just wants a peaceful time without being disturbed, so he cuts the flute into pieces with a pair of scissors, and threatens to beat Willy Walrus with a shovel should he annoy Diogenes again.
Mnemonic symbol: 無爲, wu2 wei2, the state of non-doing after having attained complete harmony with the Tao.
Willy Walrus (w) has attained Wu Wei (無) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2), while from the outside it may seem like he is napping.
Willy Walrus (w) has attained Wu Wei (無) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2), while from the outside it may seem like he is napping.
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one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3]
Mnemonic symbol: a shovel (乚).
Remember it by imagining Maud Younger (y) digging her own grave with a shovel in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
Remember it by imagining Maud Younger (y) digging her own grave with a shovel in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
Character component without intrinsic meaning
Characters with 无 as component
to comfort / to console / to stroke / to caress / an old term for province or provincial governor
overgrown with weeds
small rooms facing or to the side of the main hall or veranda
variant of 蕪|芜[wu2]
dialectal equivalent of 沒有|没有[mei2 you3]
perplexed / astonished
flatter / to please
Japanese variant of 雞|鸡
disappointed / startled
(literary) to have tender affection for / (literary) discouraged; disappointed / (literary) startled
Words with 无
not knowing anything at all (idiom); completely ignorant / without an inkling
not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking / without two sticks to rub together
to have achieved nothing / to be a total failure / to get nowhere
There are three ways to be unfilial; having no sons is the worst. (citation from Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3])
person without identification papers, a normal residence permit or a source of income
product lacking one or more of three requirements such as production license, inspection certificate, and manufacturer's name and location
lit. there is no road to the sky, nor door into the earth (idiom) / fig. to be at the end of one's rope / to be trapped in a hopeless situation