不着

no need / need not

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

(chess) move / trick / all right! / (dialect) to add

to touch / to come in contact with / to feel / to be affected by / to catch fire / to burn / (coll.) to fall asleep / (after a verb) hitting the mark / succeeding in

aspect particle indicating action in progress

to wear (clothes) / to contact / to use / to apply

not need / have no use for

not to the point / wide of the mark / neither here nor there / irrelevant

not worthwhile

nonstop flight

see 偷雞不成蝕把米|偷鸡不成蚀把米[tou1 ji1 bu4 cheng2 shi2 ba3 mi3]

lit. no village ahead and no inn behind (idiom) / fig. to be stranded in the middle of nowhere / to be in a predicament

to be unable to reach

to be unable to find

to be confused and disoriented

can't touch / can't reach / (fig.) unable to get a grasp of

irrelevant / can't make head or tail of

to be unable to make any sense of the matter / to be at a loss

see 數不上|数不上[shu3 bu4 shang4]

to have no right or ability to interfere in sth / it's none of your business!

scatter-brained / thoughtless

lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom) / fig. at a total loss

see 丈二和尚，摸不著頭腦|丈二和尚，摸不着头脑[zhang4 er4 he2 shang5 , mo1 bu5 zhao2 tou2 nao3]

to leave no trace / seamlessly / unobtrusively