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无意

wú yì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 無意

无意 (wú yì) means "inadvertent; accidental; to have no intention of (doing sth)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 无意 means

1. inadvertent
2. accidental
3. to have no intention of (doing sth)

The characters in 无意

• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 意yì(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination…

Example sentences

• 无意冒犯！
  No hard feelings!
• 这毫无意义。
  That's quite meaningless.
• 我无意辞职。
  I have no intention of resigning.
• 我无意打扰。
  I didn't mean to interrupt.
• 我无意争辩你的理论。
  Wǒ wúyì zhēngbiàn nǐ de lǐlùn.
  I have no intention in arguing about your theory.
• 汤姆无意吃了老鼠药。
  Tom accidentally ate some rat poison.

Words starting with 无意

• 无意中wú yì zhōngaccidentally; unintentionally; unexpectedly
• 无意识wú yì shíunconscious; involuntary
• 无意间wú yì jiāninadvertently; unintentionally

Words containing 无意

• 有意无意yǒu yì wú yìintentionally or otherwise
• 言者无意，听者有心yán zhě wú yì , tīng zhě yǒu xīnto take a casual remark to heart (idiom)

Sounds the same

Read wú yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 无异nothing other than; to differ in no way from; the same as
• 无益no good; not good for; not beneficial
• 无义without meaning; nonsense; immoral

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