無い

ない

nonexistent, not being

Mnemonic

Fire under the whole tangle of it until not one stroke is left standing. Bill Nye ない vanishes in the middle of a sentence and there is nothing there at all: ない.

Worth knowing

Does the work of a negative ある. The ways it attaches to other words are worth reading up on properly.

Built from

無

nothing, without

A thicket of strokes over 灬 fire, the lot of it burnt away to nothing.

Words sharing these kanji

無理 unreasonable, impossible 無事 safely, peacefully 無くなる to be lost, to be used up 無視 ignoring, disregarding 無駄 wasteful, useless 無し naught, nothing, without 無言 silence, muteness

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