无关紧要
wúguānjǐnyào
irrelevant; unimportant
Characters in this word
紧 jǐn
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 糸 — silk
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
要 yào
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 覀 — west, western, westward
- Made of
- 覀 west, western, westward 女 woman, girl
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这件小事无关紧要，别再担心了。 Zhè jiàn xiǎoshì wúguānjǐnyào, bié zài dānxīn le. This trivial matter is unimportant; stop worrying about it.
- 成绩虽然重要，但健康更重要，其他的都无关紧要。 Chéngjì suīrán zhòngyào, dàn jiànkāng gèng zhòngyào, qítā de dōu wúguānjǐnyào. Grades matter, but health matters more; everything else is irrelevant.
- 大家都只谈关键问题，无关紧要的细节被跳过了。 Dàjiā dōu zhǐ tán guānjiàn wèntí, wúguānjǐnyào de xìjié bèi tiàoguò le. Everyone only discussed the key issues; the unimportant details were skipped.
Related words
- 无 wú no; without
- 无法 wúfǎ unable to
- 无聊 wúliáo boring; bored
- 无论 wúlùn no matter
- 无数 wúshù countless
- 无所谓 wúsuǒwèi it does not matter
- 无限 wúxiàn unlimited; endless
- 无奈 wúnài helpless; having no choice
- 无疑 wúyí without doubt
- 毫无 háowú completely without
- 大公无私 dàgōngwúsī selfless; impartial and public-spirited
- 当之无愧 dāngzhīwúkuì fully deserving; worthy of the title