Chinese symbol for “ineffective”
无效
wú xiào
Traditional: 無效
not valid; ineffective; in vain
The closest CC-CEDICT match for ineffective is 无效 (wú xiào), defined as: not valid; ineffective; in vain.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “ineffective”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 无效.
| 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 |
| 有效 | yǒu xiào | effective; in effect |
| 效果 | xiào guǒ | result; effect |
See also: Japanese symbol for “ineffective”.
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.