没 méi
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 殳 tool, weapon
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
没完没了
méiwánméiliǎo
endless; never-ending
Characters in this word
完 wán
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 宀 — roof
- Made of
- 宀 roof 元 first
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
了 le
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 亅 — hook
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 孩子在车里没完没了地问我们还有多久才到。 Háizi zài chē lǐ méiwán méiliǎo de wèn wǒmen hái yǒu duō jiǔ cái dào. In the car the child kept asking endlessly how much longer until we arrived.
- 外面的雨下得没完没了，周末哪儿也去不了。 Wàimiàn de yǔ xià de méiwán méiliǎo, zhōumò nǎr yě qù bù liǎo. The rain outside goes on and on; we cannot go anywhere this weekend.
- 他一打电话就没完没了，我们都没法安静地工作。 Tā yì dǎ diànhuà jiù méiwán méiliǎo, wǒmen dōu méi fǎ ānjìng de gōngzuò. Once he starts a phone call he goes on forever, and none of us can work in peace.
Related words
- 没 méi not (have); did not
- 没关系 méiguānxi it doesn't matter, never mind
- 没什么 méishénme it's nothing, never mind
- 没事儿 méishìr it's nothing, never mind
- 没有 méiyǒu not have, there is no; did not
- 没用 méiyòng useless
- 没错 méicuò correct; right
- 没法儿 méifǎr to have no way to
- 没想到 méixiǎngdào to not expect
- 淹没 yānmò to drown, to submerge
- 埋没 máimò to bury; to let talent go unnoticed
- 没劲 méijìn boring; listless; to lack energy