没用

沒用

méiyòng

adjective HSK 3 #3,258

Meanings

HSK 1

说这些没用的。

Shuō zhèxiē méiyòng de.

Saying all this is useless.

HSK 2

哭也没用。

Kū yě méiyòng.

Crying won't help either.

HSK 5

这个东西没用了，扔掉吧。

Zhège dōngxi méiyòng le, rēngdiào ba.

This thing is useless now, throw it away.

usage

没用 can describe things (这个没用, this is useless) or be used as a blunt insult about people (你真没用, you're really useless). Be careful with the latter.

没 méi

用 yòng