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乌有

wū yǒu

2-character word Traditional 烏有

What 乌有 means

1. literarynot to exist; nonexistent; illusory

The characters in 乌有

• 乌wūcrow; black
• 有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意

Words containing 乌有

• 化为乌有huà wéi wū yǒu(idiom) to go up in smoke; to vanish
• 子虚乌有zǐ xū wū yǒu(idiom) to have no basis in fact; to be the product of sb's imagination

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