Chinese symbol for “feckless”
无所作为
wú suǒ zuò wéi
Traditional: 無所作為
attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing (idiom); without any initiative or drive; feckless
The closest CC-CEDICT match for feckless is 无所作为 (wú suǒ zuò wéi), defined as: attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing (idiom); without any initiative or drive; feckless.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “feckless”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 无所作为.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无法 (無法) | wú fǎ | unable to; incapable of |
| 无论 (無論) | wú lùn | no matter what or how; regardless of whether... |
| 毫无 (毫無) | háo wú | not in the least; to completely lack |
| 无限 (無限) | wú xiàn | unlimited; unbounded; infinite |
| 无关 (無關) | wú guān | unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else) |
| 无数 (無數) | wú shù | countless; numberless |
| 所以 | suǒ yǐ | therefore; as a result |
| 所有 | suǒ yǒu | all; to have; to possess; to own |
| 工作 | gōng zuò | to work; (of a machine) to operate |
| 因为 (因為) | yīn wèi | because; owing to; on account of |
See also: Japanese symbol for “feckless”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.