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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).
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Words with 无
safe and sound (idiom) / to come out unscathed (e.g. from an accident or illness)
just a very few (idiom); tiny number / not many at all / You count them on your fingers.
no end to learning (idiom); There's always something new to study. / You live and learn.
refrain from hurting others, yet guard against those trying to hurt you (proverb)
in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king (idiom) / (depending on the source, the last word is either 大王[da4 wang2] or 大王[dai4 wang5])
The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
Big Mac Index, a measure of the purchasing power parity (PPP) between currencies
sea of learning, no horizon (idiom); no limits to what one still has to learn / ars longa, vita brevis