Chinese symbol for “malpractice”
流弊
liú bì
malpractice; long-running abuse
The closest CC-CEDICT match for malpractice is 流弊 (liú bì), defined as: malpractice; long-running abuse.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “malpractice”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 弊病 | bì bìng | malady; evil |
| 玩忽职守 (玩忽職守) | wán hū zhí shǒu | to neglect one's duty; dereliction of duty |
| 陋习 (陋習) | lòu xí | corrupt practice; bad habits |
| 蠹弊 | dù bì | malpractice; abuse |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 流弊.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 交流 | jiāo liú | to exchange; exchange |
| 流行 | liú xíng | (of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable |
| 主流 | zhǔ liú | main stream (of a river); fig. the essential point |
| 流动 (流動) | liú dòng | to flow; to circulate; to move about; mobile; (of assets) liquid |
| 流量 | liú liàng | flow rate; throughput of passengers; volume of traffic; (hydrology) discharge |
| 流通 | liú tōng | to circulate; to distribute; circulation; distribution |
| 作弊 | zuò bì | to practice fraud; to cheat |
| 舞弊 | wǔ bì | to engage in fraud |
See also: Japanese symbol for “malpractice”.
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.