Chinese symbol for “pretentious”
矫情
jiǎo qíng
Traditional: 矯情
affected; unnatural; pretentious
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pretentious is 矫情 (jiǎo qíng), defined as: affected; unnatural; pretentious.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “pretentious”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 神气 (神氣) | shén qì | expression; manner |
| 浮华 (浮華) | fú huá | ostentatious; pretentious |
| 装腔作势 (裝腔作勢) | zhuāng qiāng zuò shì | posturing; pretentious |
| 拿乔 (拿喬) | ná qiáo | pretentious; striking a pose |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 矫情.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 矫正 (矯正) | jiǎo zhèng | to correct; to rectify (e.g. a physical defect such as hearing or vision) |
| 矫治 (矯治) | jiǎo zhì | to correct (e.g. sight or hearing); to rectify |
| 矫健 (矯健) | jiǎo jiàn | strong and healthy; vigorous |
| 矫枉过正 (矯枉過正) | jiǎo wǎng guò zhèng | to overcorrect (idiom); to overcompensate |
| 情况 (情況) | qíng kuàng | circumstances; state of affairs; situation; 种 (zhǒng) |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business; measure word: 件 (jiàn), 桩 (zhuāng) |
| 情绪 (情緒) | qíng xù | mood; state of mind |
| 爱情 (愛情) | ài qíng | romance; love (romantic); measure word: 份 (fèn) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “pretentious”.
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.