Dictionary › 无精打彩

无精打彩

wú jīng dǎ cǎi

4-character word Traditional 無精打彩

What 无精打彩 means

1. dull and colorless (idiom); lacking vitality
2. not lively

The characters in 无精打彩

• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 精jīngessence; extract; vitality
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 彩cǎi(bright) color; variety; applause

Sounds the same

Read wú jīng dǎ cǎi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 无精打采dispirited and downcast (idiom); listless; in low spirits; washed out

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wú jīng dǎ cǎi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.