HSK 6 · Function Words

毫无 háowú “not at all” in Chinese

Traditional 毫無

What 毫无 means

  1. not at all
  2. completely without
  3. not in the least
  4. to completely lack

How to say 毫无

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale毫háo2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale无wú2nd tone, rising

毫无 in a sentence

  1. 我对你毫无隐瞒。

    Wǒ duì nǐ háowú yǐnmán.

    I’m hiding nothing from you.

    Sentence #848715 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 货物毫无损坏地到达了。

    Huòwù háowú sǔnhuài de dàodá le.

    The goods arrived undamaged.

    Sentence #7768400 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 看到这些作业，我毫无压力。

    Kàndào zhèxiē zuòyè, wǒ háowú yālì.

    Looking at this homework, I don’t feel any pressure at all.

    Sentence #1695437 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 毫无 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 毫 (háo) with each of its parts in a different colour
毫háohair
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 毛fur · máoMeaning part
The character 无 (wú) with each of its parts in a different colour
无wúnot to have
  • 一one · yī
  • 尢lame · wāng

How to write 毫无

毫 11 strokes · 无 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

毫无 (háowú) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 毫无 (háowú). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 毫无

Words with 毫

丝毫sīháo · the slightest amount or degree毫米háomǐ · millimetre

Words with 无

无wú · not to have无聊wúliáo · bored无论wúlùn · no matter what or how无法wúfǎ · to be unable to无奈wúnài · to have no alternative无数wúshù · countless无所谓wúsuǒwèi · to not matter无赖wúlài · rogue无比wúbǐ · incomparable无耻wúchǐ · shameless

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过于guòyú · excessively姑且gūqiě · for the time being固然gùrán · admittedly嗨hāi · hi呵hē · to breathe out嘿hēi · hey (to attract attention)胡乱húluàn · carelessly将近jiāngjìn · nearly

FAQs

毫无 (háowú) means “not at all” or “completely without”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it háowú: háo with a 2nd tone, then wú with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 毫无 is written 毫無. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type haowu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 毫无 from the suggestions. Typing haowu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
毫无 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.