Chinese symbol for “alarming”
大不了
dà bu liǎo
at worst; if worst comes to worst; (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming
The closest CC-CEDICT match for alarming is 大不了 (dà bu liǎo), defined as: at worst; if worst comes to worst; (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 大不了.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 大量 | dà liàng | great amount; large quantity |
| 大陆 (大陸) | dà lù | continent; mainland; 块 (kuài) |
| 大会 (大會) | dà huì | general assembly; general meeting |
| 重大 | zhòng dà | great; important |
| 不是 | bù shì | no; is not |
| 不能 | bù néng | cannot; must not |
| 为了 (為了) | wèi le | for; for the purpose of; in order to |
See also: Japanese symbol for “alarming”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.