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无比 (wú bǐ) — unparalleled; matchless

Definition

无比 means 'unparalleled' and is often used as an adverbial intensifier before adjectives (无比激动). It describes a quality or feeling; 无敌 means 'invincible' and describes a person or team in competition.

verb
unparalleledmatchless

Examples

  • ，无比。
    Kàn dào ér zi kǎo shàng dà xué, tā gǎn dào wú bǐ jī dòng.
    Seeing his son get into university, he felt incredibly excited.
  • 无比。
    Zhè duàn huí yì duì wǒ wú bǐ zhòng yào.
    This memory is extremely important to me.
  • 无比，。
    Tā de gē shēng wú bǐ dòng tīng, suǒ yǒu rén dōu tīng dāi le.
    Her singing was incomparably beautiful; everyone was spellbound.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

无wúwithout
比bǐcomparison

The meaning of without and comparison combines to express having no match.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 無; 无 is its simplified writing.

For the simplified 无, the story is about 無. 無 drew a person dancing with ox tails held in both hands to pray for rain, then was borrowed for 'have no', so the picture does not explain that meaning.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

  • 匕匕bǐ
  • 匕匕bǐ

比 is two 匕 placed side by side. Chu Wan-li treats both as sound parts, while an old reading takes the side-by-side arrangement as putting things next to each other.

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