臭不可闻 — Chinese idiom
臭不可闻
chòu bù kě wén
Traditional: 臭不可聞
Meaning
- to stink to high heaven
- (fig.) disgraceful; disgusting
Character by character
- 臭chòuto reek, to smell, to stink
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 可kěmay, can, -able; possibly
- 闻wénnews; to hear, to smell; to make known
Idioms sharing a character
- 乳臭未干 rǔ xiù wèi gān
- 如蝇逐臭 rú yíng zhú chòu
- 臭名昭彰 chòu míng zhāo zhāng
- 臭气冲天 chòu qì chōng tiān
- 臭气熏天 chòu qì xūn tiān
- 遗臭万年 yí chòu wàn nián
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一尘不染 yī chén bù rǎn
- 一字不差 yī zì bù chà
- 一字不提 yī zì bù tí
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