臭
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stench; smelly; to smell (bad); repulsive; loathsome; terrible; bad; severely; ruthlessly; dud (ammunition)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 自 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 臭
- Common rank
- #1,211
- Unicode
- U+81ED
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Words with 臭
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出臭子儿 | to make a bad move (in a game of chess) | |
| 臭子儿 | dead bullet (one that does not fire); a bad move (in a game of chess) | |
| 臭气冲天 | (idiom) to stink to high heaven | |
| 臭不可闻 | (idiom) to stink to high heaven; (fig.) (idiom) disgraceful; disgusting | |
| 遗臭万年 | to have one's name go down in history as a byword for infamy (idiom) | |
| 臭味相投 | to share vile habits; partners in notoriety; birds of a feather | |
| 臭气 | stench | |
| 体臭 | (unpleasant) body odor | |
| 发臭 | smelly; to smell bad | |
| 臭架子 | stinking pretension; to give oneself airs and offend others; hateful arrogance | |
| 口臭 | bad breath; halitosis | |
| 臭名远扬 | stinking reputation; notorious far and wide | |
| 臭美 | greatly pleased with oneself; vain; conceited (used as an insult or teasingly) | |
| 乳臭未干 | lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom); fig. immature and inexperienced; still we… | |
| 三个臭皮匠，合成一个诸葛亮 | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom | |
| 臭老九 | stinking intellectual (contemptuous term for educated people during the Cultural Revolutio… | |
| 三个臭皮匠，赛过一个诸葛亮 | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom; wisdom of… | |
| 三个臭皮匠，胜过一个诸葛亮 | variant of 三個臭皮匠，賽過一個諸葛亮|三个臭皮匠，赛过一个诸葛亮[san1 ge4 chou4 pi2 jiang5 , sai4 guo4 yi1 ge4 Zhu1 … | |
| 除臭剂 | deodorant | |
| 臭弹 | dead bomb (i.e. not exploding on impact) |