Chinese symbol for “fault”
不是
bù shi
fault; blame
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fault is 不是 (bù shi), defined as: fault; blame.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “fault”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 毛病 | máo bìng | fault; defect |
| 错失 (錯失) | cuò shī | fault; mistake |
| 咎 | jiù | fault; to blame |
| 碴 | chá | fault; glass fragment |
| 差错 (差錯) | chā cuò | mistake; slip-up; fault; error; accident; mishap |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 不是.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 就是 | jiù shì | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just |
| 但是 | dàn shì | but; however |
| 还是 (還是) | hái shi | still (as before); had better |
| 只是 | zhǐ shì | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fault”.
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.