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)
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On readings
ムブ
Kun readings
ない
Words with 無
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —既読無視reading but not responding to a text message (in a chat application); leaving (someone) on read
- —未読無視ignoring a text message by leaving it unopened and marked as "unread" (in online chatting)
- —無人電車driverless train
- —もう無理I can't take it any more; I've had it
- —無機塩類mineral salts; inorganic salts
- —無血開城capitulation without resistance; surrendering without fighting
- —無になるto come to nothing; to be in vain; to lead nowhere
- —虚無ゲーboring game; monotonous game
- —無髄神経unmyelinated nerve
- —無性世代asexual generation (of organisms undergoing heterogenesis); anamorph (of fungi)
- —無用の用usefulness for the (seemingly) useless
- —無名動脈innominate artery
- —逆転無罪reversal of a guilty verdict; acquittal on appeal
- —無中生有creation out of nothing; making something out of thin air; pure fabrication; "Creating Something from Nothing" (7th of the Thirty-Six Stratagems); making a non-existent thing appear to exist to deceive an enemy
- —ああ無情Les Miserables (novel by Victor Hugo)
- —無印良品Muji
- —無断借用unauthorized borrowing; borrowing without permission; unauthorized use; misappropriation; plagiarism
- —無断使用unauthorized use; unauthorized usage; use without permission
- —無発酵茶unfermented tea
- —無賃送還free-of-charge return trip (e.g. due to a service disruption)