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默默无闻

mò mò wú wén

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 默默無聞

默默无闻 (mò mò wú wén) means "obscure and unknown (idiom); an outsider without any reputation; a nobody; an unknown quantity". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 默默无闻 means

1. idiomunknown; unrenowned

The characters in 默默无闻

• 默mòsilent; to write from memory
• 默mòsilent; to write from memory
• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 闻wénto hear; news; well-known

Sounds the same

Read mò mò wú wén, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 没没无闻variant of 默默无闻

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