Chinese symbol for “malicious”
恶毒
è dú
Traditional: 惡毒
malicious
The closest CC-CEDICT match for malicious is 恶毒 (è dú), defined as: malicious.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “malicious”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奸险 (奸險) | jiān xiǎn | malicious; treacherous |
| 毒 | dú | poison; to poison |
| 阴鸷 (陰鷙) | yīn zhì | malicious; treacherous |
| 狠毒 | hěn dú | vicious; malicious |
| 括毒 | kuò dú | (literary) malicious; spiteful |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 恶毒.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 邪恶 (邪惡) | xié è | sinister; vicious |
| 恶心 (噁心) | ě xīn | variant of 恶心 (ě xīn) |
| 恶化 (惡化) | è huà | to worsen |
| 恶劣 (惡劣) | è liè | vile; nasty |
| 病毒 | bìng dú | virus |
| 毒品 | dú pǐn | drugs; narcotics |
| 有毒 | yǒu dú | poisonous |
| 中毒 | zhòng dú | to be poisoned |
See also: Japanese symbol for “malicious”.
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.