Chinese symbol for “otherworldly”
不食人间烟火
bù shí rén jiān yān huǒ
Traditional: 不食人間煙火
otherworldly; detached from the mundane concerns of ordinary life
The closest CC-CEDICT match for otherworldly is 不食人间烟火 (bù shí rén jiān yān huǒ), defined as: otherworldly; detached from the mundane concerns of ordinary life.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 不食人间烟火.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不是 | bù shì | no; is not |
| 不能 | bù néng | cannot; must not |
| 不会 (不會) | bù huì | improbable; unlikely |
| 不过 (不過) | bù guò | only; merely |
| 不同 | bù tóng | different; distinct |
| 食品 | shí pǐn | foodstuff; food; provisions |
| 食物 | shí wù | food |
| 粮食 (糧食) | liáng shi | foodstuff; cereals |
| 人民 | rén mín | the people |
| 时间 (時間) | shí jiān | (concept of) time; (duration of) time |
| 烟草 (煙草) | yān cǎo | tobacco |
| 火车 (火車) | huǒ chē | train; measure word: 列 (liè), 节 (jié), 班 (bān), 趟 (tàng) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “otherworldly”.
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.