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无所事事

wú suǒ shì shì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 無所事事

无所事事 (wú suǒ shì shì) means "to have nothing to do; to idle one's time away (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 无所事事 means

1. to have nothing to do
2. to idle one's time away (idiom)

The characters in 无所事事

• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 所suǒactually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc
• 事shìmatter; thing; item
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Example sentences

• 在假期中我无所事事。
  Zài jiàqī zhōng wǒ wúsuǒshìshì.
  I did nothing during the holidays.
• 她无所事事地看向窗外
  She was idly looking out of the window.

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