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無惡不作

简无恶不作 · 繁無惡不作

Mandarin · pinyin wú è bù zuò

not to shrink from any crime (idiom); to commit any imaginable misdeed

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不: bù · no, not; un-; negative prefix
作: zuò · make; work; compose, write; act, perform
无: wú · negative, no, not; Kangxi radical 71
恶: è · evil, wicked, bad, foul

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2–4–4–4 · wu2 e4 bu4 zuo4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

mou4 ok3 bat1 zok3

Cantonese word readings for 無惡不作. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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(idiomatic) to stop at nothing in doing evil; to commit all manners of crime

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