無時無刻

無時無刻

1. (prescribed) at no time; never

   • 自是行忘止，食忘饗，卻像掉下了一件甚麼東西，無時無刻不在心上。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     自是行忘止，食忘飨，却像掉下了一件什么东西，无时无刻不在心上。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1628 CE, Ling Mengchu, Slapping the Table in Amazement I

     Zì shì xíng wàng zhǐ, shí wàng xiǎng, què xiàng diàoxià le yī jiàn shénme dōngxi, wúshíwúkè bù zài xīnshàng. [Pinyin]

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   他無時無刻不坐在電腦旁。 [MSC, trad.]
   他无时无刻不坐在电脑旁。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā wúshíwúkè bù zuò zài diànnǎo páng. [Pinyin]

   He is always sitting by the computer.

2. (proscribed or Cantonese) at all times; anytime

   他無時無刻都在打電動。 [MSC, trad.]
   他无时无刻都在打电动。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā wúshíwúkè dōu zài dǎdiàndòng. [Pinyin]

   He is always playing video games.

   佢無時無刻都係喺度打機。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   佢无时无刻都系喺度打机。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   keoi⁵ mou⁴ si⁴ mou⁴ hak¹ dou¹ hai⁶ hai² dou⁶ daa² gei¹. [Jyutping]

   He is always playing video games.

• For the first sense, usually used with negative particles (e.g. 不) to form double negative sentences, with the meaning of “all the time, incessantly”.
• For the second sense, usually used with 都 to mean “all the time, incessantly”.