无赖 wúlài▶ pícaro

Stroke order

无赖 is written in 17 strokes across 2 characters.

• 无 — 4 strokes
• 赖 — 13 strokes

Senses

1. hoodlum
2. rascal
3. rogue
4. rascally
5. scoundrelly

Related words

• 依赖confiar en
• 信赖confiar; depender
• 无偿gratis
• 无比extremadamente
• 无知ignorancia
• 无耻desvergonzado

无赖 is pronounced wúlài and means “pícaro”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 无赖 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.