无常無常

无常無常 in English

wú cháng: variable / changeable / fickle / impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya) / ghost taking away the soul after death / to pass away / to die

Character breakdown

无無 wú not to have
常 cháng always

Stroke order

Le caractère 无 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 无

Le caractère 無 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 常 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 常

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 無, the traditional character: 无 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 24 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

世事变幻无常，人不能因循守旧、一成不变。

Things change from time to time, and one should change with them.
他喜怒无常，极难相处。

He is moody and difficult to get along with.
像四月一样反覆无常。

Capricious as April.
本周天气变化无常。

This week the weather was very unpredictable.

All example sentences with 无常

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