Chinese symbol for “unrefined”
不登大雅之堂
bù dēng dà yǎ zhī táng
lit. not fit for elegant hall (of artwork); not presentable; coarse; unrefined
The closest CC-CEDICT match for unrefined is 不登大雅之堂 (bù dēng dà yǎ zhī táng), defined as: lit. not fit for elegant hall (of artwork); not presentable; coarse; unrefined.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 不登大雅之堂.
| 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 |
| 登记 (登記) | dēng jì | to register (one's name) |
| 登陆 (登陸) | dēng lù | to land; to come ashore |
| 登上 | dēng shàng | to climb over; to ascend onto |
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 优雅 (優雅) | yōu yǎ | grace; graceful |
| 之后 (之後) | zhī hòu | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then |
| 教堂 | jiào táng | church; chapel; measure word: 座 (zuò), 所 (suǒ), 间 (jiān) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “unrefined”.
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.