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一事无成

yī shì wú chéng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 一事無成

一事无成 (yī shì wú chéng) means "to have achieved nothing; to be a total failure; to get nowhere". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 一事无成 means

1. idiomto have achieved nothing; to be a total failure; to get nowhere

The characters in 一事无成

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 事shìmatter; thing; item
• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 成chéngto succeed; to finish; to complete

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