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无精打采

wú jīng dǎ cǎi

HSK 6 4-character word Traditional 無精打采

What 无精打采 means

1. dispirited and downcast (idiom); listless
2. in low spirits
3. washed out

The characters in 无精打采

• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 精jīngessence; extract; vitality
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 采cǎito pick; to pluck; to collect

Sounds the same

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

• 无精打彩dull and colorless (idiom); lacking vitality; not lively