Chinese symbol for “unfettered”
无拘无束
wú jū wú shù
Traditional: 無拘無束
free and unconstrained (idiom); unfettered; unbuttoned; without care or worries
The closest CC-CEDICT match for unfettered is 无拘无束 (wú jū wú shù), defined as: free and unconstrained (idiom); unfettered; unbuttoned; without care or worries.
Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.
Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “unfettered”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 逍遥自在 (逍遙自在) | xiāo yáo zì zai | free and at leisure (idiom); unfettered; outside the reach of the law (of criminal) |
| 无碍 (無礙) | wú ài | without inconvenience; unimpeded |
| 优游自得 (優遊自得) | yōu yóu zì dé | free and at leisure (idiom); unfettered |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 无拘无束.
| 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 |
| 拘留 | jū liú | to detain (as a prisoner); to keep sb in custody |
| 拘捕 | jū bǔ | to arrest |
| 结束 (結束) | jié shù | to end; to finish; to conclude |
See also: Japanese symbol for “unfettered”.
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.
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