Chinese symbol for “inanimate”
无生命
wú shēng mìng
Traditional: 無生命
non-living; inanimate; lifeless
The closest CC-CEDICT match for inanimate is 无生命 (wú shēng mìng), defined as: non-living; inanimate; lifeless.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 无生命.
| 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 |
| 发生 (發生) | fā shēng | to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises") |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live; life |
| 革命 | gé mìng | to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution |
See also: Japanese symbol for “inanimate”.
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.