Chinese symbol for “nobody”
平庸之辈
píng yōng zhī bèi
Traditional: 平庸之輩
a nobody; a nonentity
The closest CC-CEDICT match for nobody is 平庸之辈 (píng yōng zhī bèi), defined as: a nobody; a nonentity.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “nobody”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小人物 | xiǎo rén wù | nonentity; a nobody |
| 无名之辈 (無名之輩) | wú míng zhī bèi | unknown person; nobody |
| 无名小卒 (無名小卒) | wú míng xiǎo zú | insignificant soldier (idiom); a nobody |
| 毋 | wú | (literary) no; don't |
| 小卒 | xiǎo zú | foot soldier; minor figure |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 平庸之辈.
| 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 |
| 平庸 | píng yōng | mediocre; indifferent |
| 庸俗 | yōng sú | vulgar; tacky |
| 之后 (之後) | zhī hòu | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then |
| 一辈子 (一輩子) | yī bèi zi | (for) a lifetime |
See also: Japanese symbol for “nobody”.
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.