Chinese symbol for “degenerate”
退化
tuì huà
to degenerate; atrophy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for degenerate is 退化 (tuì huà), defined as: to degenerate; atrophy.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “degenerate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 变质 (變質) | biàn zhì | to degenerate; to deteriorate; (of food) to go bad; to go off |
| 沦落 (淪落) | lún luò | to degenerate; impoverished |
| 流 | liú | to flow; to disseminate |
| 堕落 (墮落) | duò luò | to degrade; to degenerate |
| 沦陷 (淪陷) | lún xiàn | to fall into enemy hands; to be occupied |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 退化.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 退出 | tuì chū | to withdraw; to abort |
| 退休 | tuì xiū | to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement |
| 撤退 | chè tuì | to retreat |
| 衰退 | shuāi tuì | to decline; to fall |
| 倒退 | dào tuì | to fall back; to go in reverse |
| 退役 | tuì yì | (of military personnel or athletes) to retire; (of outdated equipment) to be decommissioned |
| 文化 | wén huà | culture; civilization |
| 变化 (變化) | biàn huà | (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation |
See also: Japanese symbol for “degenerate”.
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.