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有名无实
yǒu míng wú shí
What 有名无实 means
- lit. has a name but no reality (idiom); exists only in name
- nominal
The characters in 有名无实
- 有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意
- 名míngname; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners)
- 无wúnot to have; no; none
- 实shíreal; true; honest
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