没关系
méi guān xi
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 沒關係
It doesn't matter, that's all right — what you say when someone apologises. Taken literally it denies any connection, meaning that no harm was done. It also reassures someone who is worried about troubling you, like 'no problem'. 系 has a neutral tone here.
Câu đáp lại lời xin lỗi: không sao, không sao đâu, không hề gì. Nghĩa đen là “không có quan hệ gì”, tức là chẳng ảnh hưởng gì. Cũng dùng để trấn an khi ai đó ngại làm phiền mình. Chữ 系 ở đây đọc thanh nhẹ.
InterjectionRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “没关系” mean?
It doesn't matter, that's all right — what you say when someone apologises. Taken literally it denies any connection, meaning that no harm was done. It also reassures someone who is worried about troubling you, like 'no problem'. 系 has a neutral tone here. Literally: no connection
Is “没关系” formal or informal?
没关系 is generally neutral.