Chinese symbol for “unoriginal”
老调重弹
lǎo diào chóng tán
Traditional: 老調重彈
to play the same old tune (idiom); unoriginal
The closest CC-CEDICT match for unoriginal is 老调重弹 (lǎo diào chóng tán), defined as: to play the same old tune (idiom); unoriginal.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “unoriginal”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 了无新意 (了無新意) | liǎo wú xīn yì | unoriginal; stereotyped |
| 老梗 | lǎo gěng | (Tw) unoriginal; hackneyed; (of a joke) old |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 老调重弹.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 老师 (老師) | lǎo shī | teacher |
| 老婆 | lǎo pó | (coll.) wife |
| 老板 | lǎo bǎn | variant of 老板 (lǎo bǎn) |
| 老人 | lǎo rén | old man or woman; the elderly |
| 老公 | lǎo gōng | (coll.) husband |
| 调查 (調查) | diào chá | investigation; inquiry |
| 强调 (強調) | qiáng diào | to emphasize (a statement); to stress |
| 调整 (調整) | tiáo zhěng | to adjust; to revise; to reorganize |
| 重要 | zhòng yào | important; significant; major |
| 炸弹 (炸彈) | zhà dàn | bomb; measure word: 枚 (méi), 颗 (kē) |
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.