Chinese symbol for “surefire”
万无一失
wàn wú yī shī
Traditional: 萬無一失
surefire; absolutely safe (idiom)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for surefire is 万无一失 (wàn wú yī shī), defined as: surefire; absolutely safe (idiom).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “surefire”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 万无一失.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 万人 (萬人) | wàn rén | ten thousand people; all the people |
| 千万 (千萬) | qiān wàn | ten million; countless |
| 百万 (百萬) | bǎi wàn | million |
| 万岁 (萬歲) | wàn suì | Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!; Your Majesty |
| 万一 (萬一) | wàn yī | just in case; if by any chance |
| 万名 (萬名) | wàn míng | all names |
| 无法 (無法) | wú fǎ | unable to; incapable of |
| 无论 (無論) | wú lùn | no matter what or how; regardless of whether... |
| 一个 (一個) | yī ge | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) |
| 失去 | shī qù | to lose |
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.