Chinese symbol for “devalue”

贬低

biǎn dī

Traditional: 貶低

to belittle; to disparage; to play down; to demean

The closest CC-CEDICT match for devalue is 贬低 (biǎn dī), defined as: to belittle; to disparage; to play down; to demean; to degrade; to devalue.

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Characters and stroke order

贬 biǎn

to devalue, to demote; to criticize, to censure

radical 154 ⾙ · 8 strokes

低 dī

low; to lower, to hang; to bend, to bow

radical 9 ⼈ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

貶 biǎn

Related words

Other words that share a character with 贬低.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
贬值 (貶值)	biǎn zhí	to become devaluated; to devaluate
贬损 (貶損)	biǎn sǔn	to mock; to disparage; to belittle
贬义 (貶義)	biǎn yì	derogatory sense; negative connotation
贬抑 (貶抑)	biǎn yì	to belittle; to disparage
褒贬 (褒貶)	bāo biǎn	to appraise; to pass judgment on
降低	jiàng dī	to reduce; to lower; to bring down
低于 (低於)	dī yú	to be lower than
低下	dī xià	low status; lowly

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.