HSK 6 · Family

无赖 wúlài “rogue” in Chinese

Traditional 無賴

What 无赖 means

  1. rogue
  2. scoundrel
  3. shameless
  4. hoodlum
  5. rascal
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • rascally
  • scoundrelly

How to say 无赖

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale无wú2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale赖lài4th tone, falling

无赖 in a sentence

  1. 汤姆是个无赖。

    Tāngmǔ shì ge wúlài.

    Tom is a scoundrel.

    Sentence #8931550 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 这条街的居民大多是无赖。

    Zhè tiáo jiē de jūmín dàduō shì wúlài.

    Most of the people living on this street are scoundrels.

    Sentence #7999732 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 无赖 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 无 (wú) with each of its parts in a different colour
无wúnot to have
  • 一one · yī
  • 尢lame · wāng
The character 赖 (lài) with each of its parts in a different colour
赖làito depend on
  • 剌to slash · làSound part
  • 贝sea shell · bèiMeaning part

贝 hints at the meaning (sea shell); 剌 (là) hints at the sound. Compare it with lài.

How to write 无赖

无 4 strokes · 赖 13 strokes

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

Words related to 无赖

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无比wúbǐ · incomparable无耻wúchǐ · shameless无辜wúgū · innocent

Words with 赖

依赖yīlài · to depend on信赖xìnlài · to trust

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FAQs

无赖 (wúlài) means “rogue” or “scoundrel”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wúlài: wú with a 2nd tone, then lài 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, 无赖 is written 無賴. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wulai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 无赖 from the suggestions. Typing wulai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
无赖 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.