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无赖

wú lài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 無賴

无赖 (wú lài) means "hoodlum; rascal; rogue". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 无赖 means

1. hoodlum
2. rascal
3. rogue
4. rascally
5. scoundrelly

The characters in 无赖

• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 赖làito depend on; to hang on in a place; bad

Example sentences

• 汤姆是个无赖。
  Tāngmǔ shì ge wúlài.
  Tom is a scumbag.
• 这条街的居民大多是无赖。
  Zhè tiáo jiē de jūmín dàduō shì wúlài.
  Most of the residents on this street are wrong'uns.

Words containing 无赖

• 耍无赖shuǎ wú làito act shamelessly; to behave in a way that leaves others tut-tutting and shaking their…

Where 无赖 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · wù–wǔ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wú lài correctly.
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