Kanji1 / 12
無 kanji
nothingness, none, ain't, nothing, nil, not
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ムブ
Kun readings
ない
Words with 無
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1無闇にPopularthoughtlessly; recklessly; rashly; indiscriminately; indiscreetly; at random; excessively; unreasonably; immoderately; absurdly
- N1無意味Popularnonsense; no meaning; meaningless
- N1無邪気Popularinnocent; simple-minded
- N1無駄遣いPopularwaste (of money, time, etc.); squandering; frittering away
- N1無茶苦茶Popularnonsensical; unreasonable; absurd; unrealistic; awfully; extremely; to excess; senseless; reckless; disorder; confusion; being jumbled; being mixed up; very; extremely; excessively
- N1感無量deep emotion; being filled with emotion
- —皆無Popularnonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all
- —虚無Popularnihility; nothingness
- —無為Popularidleness; inactivity
- —無益Popularuseless; futile; vain
- —無縁Popularunrelated; unconnected; irrelevant; indifferent; divorced from; having nothing to do with one; being foreign to one; without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives; unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha
- —無我Popularselflessness; self-effacement; self-renunciation; anatta; anatman; doctrine that states that humans do not possess souls
- —無休Popularwithout a holiday; nonstop
- —無給Popularunpaid; nonsalaried
- —無菌Popularsterilised; sterilized; sterile; pasteurised; pasteurized; germ-free; aseptic
- —無形Popularformless; immaterial; intangible; incorporeal; abstract; moral; spiritual
- —無罪Popularinnocence; being not guilty
- —無残Popularcruel; merciless; atrocious; ruthless; cold-blooded; pitiful; tragic; horrible; miserable
- —無実Popularinnocence; guiltlessness; false accusation; false charge; absence of the fact; insubstantiality; lacking substance; insincerity; dishonesty
- —無傷Popularunhurt; uninjured; unwounded; unscathed; unharmed; flawless (e.g. gem); unblemished; undamaged; perfect (condition); spotless (e.g. reputation); faultless (e.g. performance); perfect (record); without failure; without defeat