有名无实 (有名無實)
yǒu míng wú shí
Pinyin
Definition
有名无实 (有名無實)
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- lit. has a name but no reality (idiom); exists only in name
- nominal
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to have
- 2 there is
- 3 there are
- 4 to exist
- 5 to be
- 1 haven't
- 2 hasn't
- 3 doesn't exist
- 4 to not have
- 5 to not be
- 1 to have
- 2 to possess
- 1 well-known for sth
- 2 to become well known
- 3 to make one's mark
- 1 name
- 2 noun (part of speech)
- 3 place (e.g. among winners)
- 4 famous
- 5 classifier for people
Idioms (20)
一无所有
- 1 not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking
- 2 without two sticks to rub together
三人行,必有我师
- 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
- 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三生有幸
- 1 the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom)
- 2 (courteous language) it's my good fortune...
上有天堂,下有苏杭
- 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
- 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven
上有政策,下有对策
- 1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)