Chinese symbol for “unsightly”
难看
nán kàn
Traditional: 難看
ugly; unsightly
The closest CC-CEDICT match for unsightly is 难看 (nán kàn), defined as: ugly; unsightly.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “unsightly”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 难看.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 困难 (困難) | kùn nan | difficult; challenging |
| 难道 (難道) | nán dào | don't tell me ...; could it be that...? |
| 难以 (難以) | nán yǐ | hard to (predict, imagine etc) |
| 难过 (難過) | nán guò | to feel sad; to feel unwell |
| 难民 (難民) | nàn mín | refugee |
| 灾难 (災難) | zāi nàn | disaster; catastrophe |
| 看到 | kàn dào | to see |
| 看看 | kàn kan | to take a look at; to examine |
See also: Japanese symbol for “unsightly”.
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.