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无所作为

wú suǒ zuò wéi

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 無所作為

无所作为 (wú suǒ zuò wéi) means "attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing (idiom); without any initiative or drive; feckless". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 无所作为 means

1. attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing (idiom); without any initiative or drive
2. feckless

The characters in 无所作为

• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 所suǒactually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc
• 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign
• 为wéias (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as

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