有勇无谋
yǒu yǒng wú móu
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 有勇無謀
Brave but without a plan: daring in action yet lacking judgement and strategy. A criticism of people who charge ahead without thinking things through.
Có gan, có sức mà không có mưu trí: dám làm nhưng thiếu tính toán. Là lời chê người chỉ biết xông lên mà không suy nghĩ thấu đáo.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): etymology of “hữu dũng vô mưu” = 有勇無謀 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “hữu dũng vô mưu” (huu-dung-vo-muu). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “有勇无谋” mean?
Brave but without a plan: daring in action yet lacking judgement and strategy. A criticism of people who charge ahead without thinking things through. Literally: has courage, lacks strategy
Is “有勇无谋” formal or informal?
有勇无谋 is generally neutral.