没

not, didn't; there isn't

No. 53 most used · 0.61% of everyday spoken Chinese: about 1 character in every 163.

Also read: mò 淹没

How it's built

• 氵water
• 殳weapon

A way to remember it

Sunk under water (氵), weapon (殳) and all: gone, none left.

Words

• 没有

  méi yǒu

  haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist
• 没事

  méi shì

  it's not important; it's nothing; never mind
• 没错

  méi cuò

  that's right; sure!; rest assured!
• 有没有

  yǒu méi yǒu

  (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?
• 没什么

  méi shén me

  it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind; think nothing of it; it's my pleasure; you're welcome
• 没关系

  méi guān xi

  it doesn't matter

Sentences

• 他们什么都没看到。

  tā men shén me dōu méi kàn dào

  They did not see anything.
• 他没给我多少建议。

  tā méi gěi wǒ duō shǎo jiàn yì

  He didn't give me much advice.
• 他的建议完全没用。

  tā de jiàn yì wán quán méi yòng

  His advice didn't help at all.
• 你没看见那个人吗？

  nǐ méi kàn jiàn nà ge rén ma

  Have you seen that person?

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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.