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Trad. 有無
- to have or have not
- surplus and shortfall
- tangible and intangible
- corporeal and incorporeal
Trad. 無利
- no profit
- not profitable
- a hindrance
- (to lend money) at no interest
Trad. 無緣
- to have no opportunity
- no way (of doing sth)
- no chance
- no connection
- not placed (in a competition)
- (in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc
Trad. 無奈
- to have no alternative
- frustrated
- exasperated
- helpless
- (conjunction) but unfortunately
Trad. 無妨
- no harm (in doing it)
- One might as well.
- It won't hurt.
- no matter
- it's no bother
Trad. 無語
- to remain silent
- to have nothing to say
- (coll.) speechless
- dumbfounded
Trad. 無常
- variable
- changeable
- fickle
- impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya)
- ghost taking away the soul after death
- to pass away
- to die
Trad. 無後
- (literary) to have no descendants; to have no son to continue one's lineage
Trad. 無從
- not to have access
- beyond one's authority or capability
- sth one has no way of doing
Trad. 無間
- very close
- no gap between them
- continuously
- unbroken
- hard to separate
- indistinguishable
Trad. 南無
- Buddhist salutation or expression of faith (loanword from Sanskrit)
- Taiwan pr. [na2 mo2]
Trad. 無愧
- to have a clear conscience; to feel no qualms; to be worthy of (sth)
Trad. 無期
- unspecified period
- in the indefinite future
- no fixed time
- indefinite sentence (i.e. life imprisonment)
Trad. 無為
- the Daoist doctrine of inaction
- let things take their own course
- laissez-faire
Trad. 無由
- to be unable (to do sth)
- no reason to ...
- without rhyme or reason
Trad. 無異
- nothing other than
- to differ in no way from
- the same as
- to amount to
Trad. 無不
- none lacking
- none missing
- everything is there
- everyone without exception
Trad. 無礙
- without inconvenience
- unimpeded
- unhindered
- unobstructed
- unfettered
- unhampered
Trad. 無符號
- unsigned (i.e. the absolute value, regardless of plus or minus sign)
Trad. 無線電
- radio; wireless (i.e. the technology used in radio telecommunication)
- a radio
Trad. 無厘頭
- silly talk or "mo lei tau" (Cantonese), genre of humor emerging from Hong Kong late in the 20th century
Trad. 無國界
- without borders (used for organizations such as Médecins sans Frontières)
Trad. 無記名
- (of a document) not bearing a name
- unregistered (financial securities etc)
- bearer (bond)
- secret (ballot etc)
- anonymous
- unattributed (remarks)
- (of a check) payable to the bearer
Trad. 無底坑
- the bottomless pit (Hell in the Bible)
- pitless (elevator)