Chinese symbol for “indecision”
犹豫不决
yóu yù bù jué
Traditional: 猶豫不決
hesitancy; indecision; to waver
The closest CC-CEDICT match for indecision is 犹豫不决 (yóu yù bù jué), defined as: hesitancy; indecision; to waver.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 犹豫不决.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 犹如 (猶如) | yóu rú | similar to; like |
| 犹豫 (猶豫) | yóu yù | to hesitate |
| 毫不犹豫 (毫不猶豫) | háo bù yóu yù | without the slightest hesitation |
| 记忆犹新 (記憶猶新) | jì yì yóu xīn | to remain fresh in one's memory (idiom) |
| 意犹未尽 (意猶未盡) | yì yóu wèi jìn | to wish to continue sth; to have not fully expressed oneself |
| 不豫 | bù yù | (literary) unhappy; displeased |
| 冘豫 | yóu yù | variant of 犹豫 (yóu yù) |
| 豫告 | yù gào | variant of 预告 (yù gào); to forecast |
| 不是 | bù shì | no; is not |
| 决定 (決定) | jué dìng | to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (个 (gè),项 (xiàng)) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “indecision”.
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.