劣
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inferior
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 力 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 劣
- Common rank
- #2,282
- Unicode
- U+52A3
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Formation & memory
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Words with 劣
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 劣迹斑斑 | notorious for one's misdeeds | |
| 优胜劣败 | see 優勝劣汰|优胜劣汰[you1 sheng4 lie4 tai4] | |
| 劣质 | shoddy; of poor quality | |
| 恶劣 | vile; nasty; of very poor quality | |
| 低劣 | inferior quality; substandard; low-grade | |
| 劣等 | poor-quality; inferior | |
| 劣币驱逐良币 | bad money drives out good money (economics) | |
| 假冒伪劣 | cheap quality counterfeit (goods); low-quality commodities | |
| 劣势 | inferior; disadvantaged | |
| 优劣 | good and bad; merits and drawbacks | |
| 劣迹 | bad record (esp. of a public official); unsavory track record | |
| 优胜劣汰 | (idiom) survival of the fittest | |
| 粗劣 | coarse | |
| 土豪劣绅 | local bosses, shady gentry (idiom); dominant local mafia | |
| 伪劣 | inferior; false | |
| 卑劣 | base; mean; despicable | |
| 拙劣 | clumsy; botched | |
| 鄙劣 | base; mean; despicable | |
| 芜劣 | muddled and inferior (of writing) | |
| 顽劣 | stubborn and obstreperous; naughty and mischievous |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 力 — compare how they read.