Chinese symbol for “inconvenient”
不便
bù biàn
inconvenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; short of cash
The closest CC-CEDICT match for inconvenient is 不便 (bù biàn), defined as: inconvenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; short of cash.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “inconvenient”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 麻烦 (麻煩) | má fan | trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying |
| 碍难 (礙難) | ài nán | inconvenient; difficult for some reason |
| 不方便 | bù fāng biàn | inconvenience; inconvenient |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 不便.
| 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 |
| 方便 | fāng biàn | convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy |
| 随便 (隨便) | suí biàn | as one wishes; as one pleases |
| 便宜 | biàn yí | convenient |
See also: Japanese symbol for “inconvenient”.
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.