Chinese symbol for “inappropriate”
离谱
lí pǔ
Traditional: 離譜
inappropriate; improper; out of place
The closest CC-CEDICT match for inappropriate is 离谱 (lí pǔ), defined as: inappropriate; improper; out of place.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “inappropriate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 失当 (失當) | shī dàng | inappropriate; improper |
| 不当 (不當) | bù dàng | unsuitable; improper; inappropriate |
| 不便 | bù biàn | inconvenient; inappropriate |
| 不宜 | bù yí | not suitable; inadvisable |
| 失宜 | shī yí | inappropriate; improper |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 离谱.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 离开 (離開) | lí kāi | to depart; to leave |
| 距离 (距離) | jù lí | distance; separation (in space or time); to be ... away from; to be ... from |
| 脱离 (脫離) | tuō lí | to separate oneself from; to break away from |
| 离婚 (離婚) | lí hūn | to divorce |
| 分离 (分離) | fēn lí | to separate |
| 远离 (遠離) | yuǎn lí | to be far from; to keep away from |
| 光谱 (光譜) | guāng pǔ | spectrum |
| 食谱 (食譜) | shí pǔ | cookbook; recipe |
See also: Japanese symbol for “inappropriate”.
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.