劣 — Chinese character
劣
liè
low-quality, inferior, bad
- Pinyin
- liè
- Radical
- 19 ⼒ (Power)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 少 力
- Formation
- pictophonetic — inadequate; meaning component 少; sound component 力
- Japanese
- 劣 as a kanji
Common words with 劣
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 恶劣 (惡劣) | è liè | vile; nasty |
| 劣势 (劣勢) | liè shì | inferior; disadvantaged |
| 低劣 | dī liè | inferior quality; substandard |
| 劣质 (劣質) | liè zhì | shoddy; of poor quality |
| 卑劣 | bēi liè | base; mean |
| 优劣 (優劣) | yōu liè | good and bad; merits and drawbacks |
| 拙劣 | zhuō liè | clumsy; botched |
| 劣等 | liè děng | poor-quality; inferior |
| 假冒伪劣 (假冒偽劣) | jiǎ mào wěi liè | cheap quality counterfeit (goods); low-quality commodities |
| 劣迹 (劣跡) | liè jì | bad record (esp. of a public official); unsavory track record |
| 优胜劣汰 (優勝劣汰) | yōu shèng liè tài | (idiom) survival of the fittest |
| 伪劣 (偽劣) | wěi liè | inferior; false |
English words written with 劣
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.