How to say brainless and lawless in Mandarin

Posted by Jonah Lopin

In a recent post I discussed the phrase 我?所?, which means "I don't care".

The word ?, pronounced wu2, means without. Thank you, Mandarin, for having such a useful word.

You can use this word with the word for brain (? = nao3) to make ?? = wu2nao3 = brainless.

You can also use?? to make the word "lawless". You first need to know the word?法, pronounced fa3, which means "law". (Of course, 法 also means "method", "way" and "Buddhist teaching", but let's ignore that for a moment.) You also need to know the word?天, pronounced tian1, which means "heaven". (It also means "day" and "sky".)

Now you can make the phrase ?法?天 = without law without heaven = lawless, as in, that guy is ?法?天.

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