莫須有
mò​xū​yǒu

groundless

  • created sense approved 莫须有/莫須有 · mò​xū​yǒu · groundless — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    莫须有 / 莫須有

    mò​xū​yǒu

    groundless

    Groundless; baseless; fabricated. This term refers to trumped-up charges or false accusations, originally meaning "perhaps there is" or "it may be so," famously used by Qin Hui to frame Yue Fei in the Song Dynasty.

    莫 (literal) → 莫 · mò · perhaps 须 (literal) → 须/須 · xū · must 有 (literal) → 有 · yǒu · there is

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense