Chinese symbol for “detrimental”

不利

bù lì

unfavorable; disadvantageous; harmful; detrimental

The closest CC-CEDICT match for detrimental is 不利 (bù lì), defined as: unfavorable; disadvantageous; harmful; detrimental.

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Characters and stroke order

不 bù

no, not, un-; negative prefix

radical 1 ⼀ · 4 strokes

利 lì

gains, advantage, profit, merit

radical 18 ⼑ · 7 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 不利.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
不是	bù shì	no; is not
不能	bù néng	cannot; must not
不会 (不會)	bù huì	improbable; unlikely
不过 (不過)	bù guò	only; merely
不同	bù tóng	different; distinct
利用	lì yòng	to exploit; to make use of
权利 (權利)	quán lì	right (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth
利益	lì yì	benefit; (in sb's) interest

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.