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没
沒
méi
1. (negative prefix for verbs)
2. have not
3. not
Very Common • Top 0%

Character Breakdown (Single character)

没
méi
not, none, gone; to bury; to sink, to drown
HSK 1 7 丶

Compound Words (20)

没口
méikǒu
unreservedly
没了
méile
to be dead
没谱
méipǔ
to have no idea about sth
没种
méizhǒng
not to have the guts (to do sth)
昧没
mèimò
veiled
没救
méijiù
hopeless
没影
méiyǐng
to vanish
呒没
mméi
dialectal equivalent of [[沒有|没有<méiyǒu>]]
没有
méiyǒu
haven't
HSK 1
没命
méimìng
to lose one's life
没电
méidiàn
discharged
没脸
méiliǎn
ashamed
没戏
méixì
(coll.) not a chance
没趣
méiqù
embarrassing
没底
méidǐ
unsure
没用
méiyòng
useless
没辙
méizhé
at one's wit's end
没错
méicuò
that's right
没事
méishì
it's not important
没法
méifǎ
at a loss

Example Sentences (10)

这两天怎么没看见小张？
Zhè liǎng tiān zěnme méi kànjiàn Xiǎo Zhāng?
How come I haven't seen Xiao Zhang these past two days?
Text 4
昨天你们怎么都没去打篮球？
Zuótiān nǐmen zěnme dōu méi qù dǎ lánqiú?
Why didn't any of you go play basketball yesterday?
Text 3
你妹妹怎么还没来？都八点四十了！
Nǐ mèimei zěnme hái méi lái? Dōu bā diǎn sìshí le!
Why hasn’t your younger sister come yet? It’s already 8:40!
Text 3
快五年了，你几乎没变化。
Kuài wǔ nián le, nǐ jīhū méi biànhuà.
It's been almost five years; you have hardly changed.
Text 4
我还没想好呢。你觉得哪儿最好玩儿？
Wǒ hái méi xiǎng hǎo ne.Nǐ juéde nǎr zuì hǎowánr?
I haven't decided yet. Where do you think is the most fun?
Text 3
因为昨天下雨，所以我们都没去。我去游泳了。
Yīnwèi zuótiān xiàyǔ,suǒyǐ wǒmen dōu méi qù.Wǒ qù yóuyǒng le.
Because it rained yesterday, none of us went. I went swimming.
Text 3
没看过，听说很有意思。
Méi kàn guo, tīngshuō hěn yǒu yìsi.
I haven't seen it; I've heard it's very interesting.
Text 1
我没看见啊。
Wǒ méi kànjiàn a.
I didn't see it.
Text 1
没迟到啊。
Méi chí dào a.
I wasn't late.
Text 4
比赛马上就要开始了，小云怎么还没来？
bǐsài mǎshàng jiù yào kāishǐ le, xiǎo yún zěnme hái méi lái?
The match is about to start; why hasn't Xiaoyun arrived yet?
Text 2

Alternate Entries

没
mò
drowned / to end / to die / to inundate

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
1
Character Frequency Rank
71
Word Frequency Rank
22 of 84,292