一事无成 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 一事無成 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. yīshìwúchéng ㄧ ㄕˋ ㄨˊ ㄔㄥˊ 男 女 to have achieved nothing to be a total failure to get nowhere idiom Character by character 一(yī)one 事(shì)matter 无(wú)not to have 成(chéng)succeed A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT