Chinese symbol for “offhand”
大大咧咧
dà dà liē liē
(idiom) carefree; offhand; casual
The closest CC-CEDICT match for offhand is 大大咧咧 (dà dà liē liē), defined as: (idiom) carefree; offhand; casual.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “offhand”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 大大咧咧.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 大量 | dà liàng | great amount; large quantity |
| 大陆 (大陸) | dà lù | continent; mainland; 块 (kuài) |
| 大会 (大會) | dà huì | general assembly; general meeting |
| 重大 | zhòng dà | great; important |
| 咧嘴 | liě zuǐ | to draw back the corners of one's mouth (as when smiling, grimacing, or snarling) |
| 骂骂咧咧 (罵罵咧咧) | mà ma liē liē | to swear while talking; to be foul-mouthed |
| 龇牙咧嘴 (齜牙咧嘴) | zī yá liě zuǐ | (idiom) to make a pained or menacing facial expression; to grimace; to snarl |
See also: Japanese symbol for “offhand”.
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.