无心 (無心) wúxīn
wúxīn
adjective
unintentional
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sennse of 不是故意的 (CC-CEDICT '無心'; Guoyu '無心')
Contained in
- 有嘴无心(有嘴無心) to talk without any intention of acting on it; empty prattle
- 有口无心(有口無心) to speak harshly but without any bad intent
- 无心插柳柳成阴(無心插柳柳成陰) idly poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree to shade you
- 茶饭无心(茶飯無心) no heart for tea or rice; melancholic and suffering; to have no appetite
- 有意栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成阴(有意栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成陰) you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree; things do not always turn out as one would expect
- 无心插柳(無心插柳) (of a good outcome) unanticipated; serendipitous; fortuitous
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷一百九十六 列傳第一百二十一 隱逸 Volume 196 Biographies 121: Recluses New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 4
- 第八十四回 Chapter 84 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 第六十八回 Chapter 68 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 卷二十五 Scroll 25 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 第二回 Chapter 34 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 3
- 第二十一回 Chapter 21 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 116 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 第五十八回 Chapter 58 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 2
- 第二十回 Chapter 20 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 卷三十 Scroll 30 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
Collocations
- 无心恋战 (無心戀戰) 無心戀戰 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第六回 Chapter 6 — count: 22
- 董无心 (董無心) 一卷戰國時董無心撰 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷34 志第29 經籍三 Volume 34 Treatises 29: Bibliography 3 — count: 8
- 无心腹 (無心腹) 非無心腹也 — Guanzi 管子, 七主七臣第五十二 Chapter 52: Seven Rulers and Seven Ministers — count: 6
- 云无心 (雲無心) 雲無心而出岫 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷九十四 列傳第六十四 隱逸 Volume 94 Biographies 64: Hermits and Recluses — count: 6
- 无心子 (無心子) 托無心子以見趣曰 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷一百九十六 列傳第一百二十一 隱逸 Volume 196 Biographies 121: Recluses — count: 4
- 无心独 (無心獨) 述亦無心獨存 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷五十二 列傳第十二 庾悅 王誕 謝景仁 袁湛 褚叔度 Volume 52 Biographies 12: Yu Yue, Wang Dan, Xie Jingren, Yuan Zhan, Chu Shudu — count: 4
- 无心曰 (無心曰) 董無心曰 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷十七 Scroll 17 — count: 4
- 无心恋 (無心戀) 他若無心戀我 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二十回 Chapter 20 — count: 3
- 实无心 (實無心) 實無心反 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷十六 Scroll 16 — count: 3
- 无心撰 (無心撰) 一卷戰國時董無心撰 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷34 志第29 經籍三 Volume 34 Treatises 29: Bibliography 3 — count: 3