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万无一失

wàn wú yī shī

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 萬無一失

万无一失 (wàn wú yī shī) means "surefire; absolutely safe (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 万无一失 means

1. surefire; absolutely safe (idiom)

The characters in 万无一失

• 万wànten thousand; a great number
• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail

Example sentences

• 想长命百岁有一个万无一失的方法：每天吃一颗狮子头，吃一百年。
  There's one surefire way to live to a ripe old age: eat a meatball a day for a hundred years.

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