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Chinese symbol for “wordless”

不声不响
bù shēng bù xiǎng
Traditional: 不聲不響
(idiom) wordless; silent; taciturn; without speaking

The closest CC-CEDICT match for wordless is 不声不响 (bù shēng bù xiǎng), defined as: (idiom) wordless; silent; taciturn; without speaking.

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Characters and stroke order

不 bù
no, not, un-; negative prefix
radical 1 ⼀ · 4 strokes
声 shēng
sound, noise; voice, tone, music
radical 33 ⼠ · 7 strokes
不
不 bù
no, not, un-; negative prefix
radical 1 ⼀ · 4 strokes
响 xiǎng
to make noise, to make sound; sound
radical 30 ⼝ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 不声不响.

WordPinyinMeaning
不是bù shìno; is not
不能bù néngcannot; must not
不会 (不會)bù huìimprobable; unlikely
不过 (不過)bù guòonly; merely
不同bù tóngdifferent; distinct
声音 (聲音)shēng yīnsound; voice
声明 (聲明)shēng míngto state; to declare
声称 (聲稱)shēng chēngto claim; to state
影响 (影響)yǐng xiǎnginfluence; effect

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.