Chinese symbol for “unpleasant”
不好受
bù hǎo shòu
unpleasant; hard to take
The closest CC-CEDICT match for unpleasant is 不好受 (bù hǎo shòu), defined as: unpleasant; hard to take.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “unpleasant”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 讨人嫌 (討人嫌) | tǎo rén xián | unpleasant; disagreeable |
| 令人不快 | lìng rén bù kuài | unpleasant; objectionable |
| 不愉快 | bù yú kuài | disagreeable; unpleasant |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 不好受.
| 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 |
| 最好 | zuì hǎo | best; had better ...; it would be best to ... |
| 好像 | hǎo xiàng | as if; to seem like |
| 不好 | bù hǎo | no good |
| 接受 | jiē shòu | to accept (a suggestion, punishment, bribe etc); to acquiesce |
See also: Japanese symbol for “unpleasant”.
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.