Chinese symbol for “mediocre”
平庸
píng yōng
mediocre; indifferent; commonplace
The closest CC-CEDICT match for mediocre is 平庸 (píng yōng), defined as: mediocre; indifferent; commonplace.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “mediocre”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 较差 (較差) | jiào chà | mediocre; rather poor |
| 庸碌 | yōng lù | mediocre |
| 平凡 | píng fán | commonplace; ordinary |
| 中路 | zhōng lù | midway; mediocre (quality) |
| 平平 | píng píng | average; mediocre |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 平庸.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 平台 (平臺) | píng tái | platform; terrace |
| 和平 | hé píng | peace; peaceful |
| 水平 | shuǐ píng | horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc) |
| 平均 | píng jūn | average; on average; evenly; in equal proportions |
| 公平 | gōng píng | fair; impartial |
| 平等 | píng děng | equal; equality |
| 庸俗 | yōng sú | vulgar; tacky |
| 中庸 | zhōng yōng | golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre |
See also: Japanese symbol for “mediocre”.
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.