"沒用" meaning in Chinese

See 沒用 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /meɪ̯³⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /muːt̚² jʊŋ²²/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /meɪ̯³⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹/, /muːt̚² jʊŋ²²/ Chinese transliterations: méiyòng [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄇㄟˊ ㄩㄥˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo], mut⁶ jung⁶ [Cantonese, Jyutping], méiyòng [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄇㄟˊ ㄩㄥˋ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], méiyòng [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], mei²-yung⁴ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], méi-yùng [Mandarin, Yale, standard], meiyonq [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], мэйюн [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], mɛjjun [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], muht yuhng [Cantonese, Yale], mut⁹ jung⁶ [Cantonese, Pinyin], mud⁶ yung⁶ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization] Forms: 没用
Head templates: {{zh-verb}} 沒用
  1. to be useless; to be of no use Derived forms: 沒卵用 (méiluǎnyòng), 没卵用 (méiluǎnyòng)
    Sense id: en-沒用-zh-verb-xixNHlwx Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Elementary Mandarin, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Synonyms: 冇用 (mou5 jung6) [Cantonese], 沒卵用 (méiluǎnyòng) [neologism, slang], 没卵用 (méiluǎnyòng) [neologism, slang], 無事使 [Hokkien, Teochew], 无事使 [Hokkien, Teochew], 無擋用 [Hokkien], 无挡用 [Hokkien], 無用 (wúyòng), 无用 (wúyòng), 無路使 [Hokkien, Teochew], 无路使 [Hokkien, Teochew], 無路使用 [Hokkien, Teochew], 无路使用 [Hokkien, Teochew], 無路用 [Hokkien, Puxian-Min, Teochew], 无路用 [Hokkien, Puxian-Min, Teochew]
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "word": "好派用場"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "word": "好派用场"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "word": "好用 (5hau-yon)"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yǒuyòng",
      "word": "有用"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "word": "有用場"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "word": "有用场 (6yeu 6yon-zan)"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "有路用"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "没用",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "沒用",
      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Elementary Mandarin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "roman": "méiluǎnyòng",
          "word": "沒卵用"
        },
        {
          "roman": "méiluǎnyòng",
          "word": "没卵用"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be useless; to be of no use"
      ],
      "id": "en-沒用-zh-verb-xixNHlwx",
      "links": [
        [
          "useless",
          "useless"
        ],
        [
          "no",
          "no"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "roman": "mou5 jung6",
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese"
          ],
          "word": "冇用"
        },
        {
          "roman": "méiluǎnyòng",
          "tags": [
            "neologism",
            "slang"
          ],
          "word": "沒卵用"
        },
        {
          "roman": "méiluǎnyòng",
          "tags": [
            "neologism",
            "slang"
          ],
          "word": "没卵用"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "無事使"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "无事使"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "無擋用"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "无挡用"
        },
        {
          "roman": "wúyòng",
          "word": "無用"
        },
        {
          "roman": "wúyòng",
          "word": "无用"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "無路使"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "无路使"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "無路使用"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "无路使用"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Puxian-Min",
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "無路用"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien",
            "Puxian-Min",
            "Teochew"
          ],
          "word": "无路用"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méiyòng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄟˊ ㄩㄥˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mut⁶ jung⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méiyòng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄟˊ ㄩㄥˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méiyòng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mei²-yung⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méi-yùng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "meiyonq"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "мэйюн"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mɛjjun"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meɪ̯³⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "muht yuhng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mut⁹ jung⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mud⁶ yung⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muːt̚² jʊŋ²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meɪ̯³⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muːt̚² jʊŋ²²/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "沒用"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "word": "好派用場"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "word": "好派用场"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "word": "好用 (5hau-yon)"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yǒuyòng",
      "word": "有用"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "word": "有用場"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Wu"
      ],
      "word": "有用场 (6yeu 6yon-zan)"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "有路用"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "méiluǎnyòng",
      "word": "沒卵用"
    },
    {
      "roman": "méiluǎnyòng",
      "word": "没卵用"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "没用",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "沒用",
      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Cantonese verbs",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 沒",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 用",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Chinese verbs",
        "Elementary Mandarin",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Mandarin verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be useless; to be of no use"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "useless",
          "useless"
        ],
        [
          "no",
          "no"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méiyòng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄟˊ ㄩㄥˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mut⁶ jung⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méiyòng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄟˊ ㄩㄥˋ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méiyòng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mei²-yung⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "méi-yùng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "meiyonq"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "мэйюн"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mɛjjun"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meɪ̯³⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "muht yuhng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mut⁹ jung⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mud⁶ yung⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muːt̚² jʊŋ²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meɪ̯³⁵ jʊŋ⁵¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muːt̚² jʊŋ²²/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "mou5 jung6",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "冇用"
    },
    {
      "roman": "méiluǎnyòng",
      "tags": [
        "neologism",
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "沒卵用"
    },
    {
      "roman": "méiluǎnyòng",
      "tags": [
        "neologism",
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "没卵用"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "無事使"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "无事使"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "無擋用"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "无挡用"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wúyòng",
      "word": "無用"
    },
    {
      "roman": "wúyòng",
      "word": "无用"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "無路使"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "无路使"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "無路使用"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "无路使用"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Puxian-Min",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "無路用"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Puxian-Min",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "word": "无路用"
    }
  ],
  "word": "沒用"
}

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