IDENTITY
没méinot have; not (past)
HSK 1Top 60
CORE MEANING
not have; not (past)
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to not haveHSK1
- 2.not (past action)HSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 氵water radical (shuǐ)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰氵殳
- water; sinking
- gives the sound méi/mò
USAGE
Common words
没有méiyǒunot have
没关系méi guānxiit doesn’t matter
Graded examples
我没有手机。Wǒ méiyǒu shǒujī.HSK1
I don’t have a phone.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 设
LEARNING
Memory aid
Water (氵) sinking the spear (殳) — gone, sunk; nothing left. (Mò: to sink.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #60
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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