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一无所有

yī wú suǒ yǒu

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 一無所有

一无所有 (yī wú suǒ yǒu) means "not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking; without two sticks to rub together". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 一无所有 means

1. not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking
2. without two sticks to rub together

The characters in 一无所有

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 所suǒactually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc
• 有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意

Example sentences

• 我一无所有。
  I don't have anything.

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