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于事无补
yú​shì​wú​bǔ

to no avail

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
于事无补 於事無補 yú​shì​wú​bǔ
to no avail
it doesn't help the situation; useless or unhelpful to the matter at hand

Frequency

Movie subtitles
2.00 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.678 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 无济于事 wú​jì​yú​shì

Same as

  • 无补于事 wú​bǔ​yú​shì

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)