HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Greetings

没事 méishì “it’s nothing” in Chinese

Traditional 沒事

What 没事 means

  1. it’s nothing
  2. that’s all right
  3. to be free
  4. it’s not important
  5. never mind
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to have nothing to do
  • to be all right (out of danger or trouble)

How to say 没事

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale没méi2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale事shì4th tone, falling

没事 in a sentence

  1. 你没事吧？

    Nǐ méishì ba?

    Are you OK?

    Sentence #10981515 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 放心，没事的。

    Fàngxīn, méishì de.

    Don’t worry, it’s fine.

    Sentence #1424246 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 她昨天没事干。

    Tā zuótiān méishì gàn.

    She had nothing to do yesterday.

    Sentence #755819 from Tatoeba

How 没事 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 没 (méi) with each of its parts in a different colour
没méihave not; not
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 殳weapon · shūSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 殳 (shū) hints at the sound. Compare it with méi.

Memory aidWater 氵 gives the meaning: it first meant “to sink under water”. Now it is mostly “not have”.

The character 事 (shì) with each of its parts in a different colour
事shìmatter
  • 一one · yī
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 彐snout · jì
  • 亅hook · jué

How to write 没事

没 7 strokes · 事 8 strokes

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

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

Words related to 没事

Words with 没

没méi · no没有méiyǒu · not to have没关系méi guānxi · it’s okay没意思méiyìsi · boring埋没máimò · to bury淹没yānmò · to submerge

Words with 事

事shì · matter事情shìqing · matter同事tóngshì · colleague故事gùshi · story从事cóngshì · to engage in人事rénshì · personnel军事jūnshì · military affairs事实shìshí · fact事物shìwù · thing事先shìxiān · in advance

More words: Greetings & Politeness

请问qǐngwèn · Excuse me不好意思bùhǎoyìsi · to feel embarrassed

FAQs

没事 (méishì) means “it’s nothing” or “that’s all right”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it méishì: méi with a 2nd tone, then shì with a 4th 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, 没事 is written 沒事. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type meishi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 没事 from the suggestions. Typing meishi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
没事 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 word list. It is not on the older 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.