Chinese symbol for “haphazardly”
没头没脸
méi tóu méi liǎn
Traditional: 沒頭沒臉
lit. without head, without face (idiom); fig. frenzily; haphazardly
The closest CC-CEDICT match for haphazardly is 没头没脸 (méi tóu méi liǎn), defined as: lit. without head, without face (idiom); fig. frenzily; haphazardly.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 没头没脸.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 没有 (沒有) | méi yǒu | haven't; hasn't |
| 有没有 (有沒有) | yǒu méi yǒu | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...? |
| 没什么 (沒什麼) | méi shén me | it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind; think nothing of it; it's my pleasure; you're welcome |
| 没错 (沒錯) | méi cuò | that's right; sure! |
| 没想到 (沒想到) | méi xiǎng dào | didn't expect |
| 没事 (沒事) | méi shì | it's not important; it's nothing |
| 头发 (頭髮) | tóu fa | hair (on the head) |
| 街头 (街頭) | jiē tóu | street |
| 丢脸 (丟臉) | diū liǎn | to lose face; humiliation |
See also: Japanese symbol for “haphazardly”.
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.