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Chinese

無憂無慮

/u³⁵ joʊ̯⁵⁵ u³⁵ ly⁵¹/
carefree and without worries
  • 无忧无虑
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The phrase describes a state of being entirely at ease, free from the weight of worry or mental agitation.
The phrase describes a state of being entirely at ease, free from the weight of worry or mental agitation.

Origin

The phrase 無憂無慮 is composed of the characters 無, 憂, and 慮. The character 無 means to not have, there is not, or there does not exist. The character 憂 means to be troubled in one's heart, to worry, or to be agitated; it contains the semantic component 夊, meaning of going or slow, and the phonetic component 㥑.

The character 慮 means to be concerned or to worry about. The component 思 itself consists of the semantic component 心, meaning heart, and the phonetic component 囟, meaning fontanelle.

According to the MOE Dictionary, the phrase describes being entirely without worries and characterizes a state of being happy and at ease.

Confidence: high · written by gemma4:26b, checked statement-by-statement against the sources below.

其中「無」表示沒有、不存在；「憂」意指內心憂慮、煩惱或不安；「慮」則表示掛念或擔心。

在字形構成上，「憂」字包含表示行走或緩慢的「夊」作為意義組成部分，並以「㥑」作為聲音組成部分。「慮」字則是由表示思考、思慮的「思」與代表虎皮紋路的「虍」組成，其中「虍」擔任聲音組件。而在「思」這個字中，「心」代表心臟，作為意義組件，並與「囟」結合，後者作為聲音組件。

Confidence: high · written by gemma4:26b, checked statement-by-statement against the sources below.

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  • characterChinese無 “to not have; there is not; there does not exist”
  • characterChinese憂 “to be troubled in one's heart; to worry; to be agitated”
    • soundChinese㥑
    • meaningChinese夊 “of going, slow”
  • characterChinese慮 “be concerned, worry about”
    • meaningChinese思 “to think; to cogitate”
      • soundChinese囟 “fontanelle”
      • meaningChinese心 “heart (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 個／个 c; 粒 mn)”
    • soundChinese虍 “pattern of tiger fur”
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Meanings

phrase
  1. carefree and without worries

國語辭典 definitions

  1. 毫無憂慮。形容心情怡然自得。 例：父母的細心呵護，使我度過無憂無慮的童年。

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Sources

  • etymagent (local gemma4:26b) — Generated
  • 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
  • Written form — n/a
  • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0