毋庸

wúyōng
adverb #36,819

Meanings

  1. 1 no need for
  2. 2 needless to (say / question)

Examples

Tā de chéngyì wúyōng zhìyí.
His sincerity is beyond doubt.
Wúyōng huìyán, zhège xiàngmù cúnzài bùshǎo wèntí.
Needless to mince words, this project has quite a few problems.

Tips

register
毋庸 is decidedly literary — pick it for written or formal speech. It almost always appears in fixed collocations: 毋庸置疑 (beyond doubt), 毋庸 (no need to hide / frankly), 毋庸 (needless to elaborate). In casual speech use 不用 (búyòng) or 不必 (búbì) instead.
grammar
(wú) is a classical negation meaning 'do not' or 'no need to', and here means 'use / need'. Together: 'no need to [verb]'. The same pattern survives in 无庸 (wúyōng), an alternative spelling with identical meaning.

Stroke Order

yōng