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Chinese symbol for “unscathed”

毫发无伤
háo fà wú shāng
Traditional: 毫髮無傷
(idiom) unscathed; unharmed; without a scratch

The closest CC-CEDICT match for unscathed is 毫发无伤 (háo fà wú shāng), defined as: (idiom) unscathed; unharmed; without a scratch.

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

毫 háo
fine hair; measure of length; one-thousandth
radical 82 ⽑ · 11 strokes
发 fà
to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
radical 29 ⼜ · 5 strokes
无 wú
no, not; lacking, -less
radical 71 ⽆ · 4 strokes
伤 shāng
to injure, to harm; wound, injury; to fall ill
radical 9 ⼈ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 毫发无伤.

WordPinyinMeaning
毫无 (毫無)háo wúnot in the least; to completely lack
毫米háo mǐmillimeter
丝毫 (絲毫)sī háothe slightest amount or degree; a bit
毫不háo bùhardly; not in the least
毫无疑问 (毫無疑問)háo wú yí wèncertainty; without a doubt
毫克háo kèmilligram
发展 (發展)fā zhǎndevelopment; growth
发生 (發生)fā shēngto happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises")
无法 (無法)wú fǎunable to; incapable of
伤害 (傷害)shāng hàito injure; to harm

See also: Japanese symbol for “unscathed”.

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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