无所作为

Traditional form:

無所作為

Pinyin (reading):

wúsuǒzuòwéi

Definitions:

• attempting nothing and accomplishing nothing (idiom); without any initiative or drive
• feckless

Characters:

• 无 - no, not; lacking, -less
• 所 - place, location; "that which", a particle introducing a passive clause
• 作 - to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
• 为 - to do, to act; to handle, to govern; to be

Traditional characters:

• 無 - no, not; lacking, -less
• 所 - place, location; "that which", a particle introducing a passive clause
• 作 - to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
• 為 - to do, to act; to handle, to govern; to be