Chinese symbol for “indifference”
冷漠
lěng mò
cold and detached towards sb; lack of regard; indifference; neglect
The closest CC-CEDICT match for indifference is 冷漠 (lěng mò), defined as: cold and detached towards sb; lack of regard; indifference; neglect.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “indifference”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 冷漠.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冷静 (冷靜) | lěng jìng | calm; cool-headed; dispassionate; (of a place) deserted; quiet |
| 冷战 (冷戰) | lěng zhàn | cold war; (fig.) strained relationship |
| 寒冷 | hán lěng | cold (climate); frigid |
| 冷却 (冷卻) | lěng què | (lit. and fig.) to cool |
| 沙漠 | shā mò | desert; 个 (gè) |
| 漠视 (漠視) | mò shì | to ignore; to neglect |
| 荒漠 | huāng mò | desert; desolate wilderness; barren wasteland; vast and desolate |
| 沙漠化 | shā mò huà | desertification |
See also: Japanese symbol for “indifference”.
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.