无所谓
wúsuǒwèi · HSK 4
not matter
🤷 无 + 所 + 谓 = no + thing + to say
无 (wú) means 'without', 所 (suǒ) marks a thing or place, 谓 (wèi) means 'to call/say'. Together: 'nothing worth saying about it' — hence indifference or 'whatever, it doesn't matter'.
无 — top 一 + 林-like middle + fire radical 灬 below
Originally a pictograph of a person dancing while holding ornaments or tassels, meaning 'to dance' — the ancestor of 舞. It was borrowed phonetically to write the negative 'not have / without,' and the dance meaning was reassigned to 舞 with an added foot element. The simplified form 无 comes from an ancient variant.
所 — door 戶 (left) + axe 斤 (right)
Originally a sound: an axe (斤) chopping wood near a door (戶), with 戶 also hinting at the pronunciation. Over time it was borrowed to mean 'place' or 'location,' and later became a grammatical particle nominalizing verbs ('that which…'). The concrete 'chopping' sense faded entirely.