Chinese symbol for “terrific”
了不得
liǎo bu de
terrific; terrible; (after 得 (de)) very
The closest CC-CEDICT match for terrific is 了不得 (liǎo bu de), defined as: terrific; terrible; (after 得 (de)) very.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “terrific”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 了不得.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 为了 (為了) | wèi le | for; for the purpose of; in order to |
| 了解 | liǎo jiě | to understand; to know about; to learn about; to find out |
| 除了 | chú le | apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody ca |
| 不了 | bù le | no thanks (used to politely but informally decline) |
| 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 |
| 觉得 (覺得) | jué de | to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “terrific”.
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.