拙劣

Chinese

		awkward; clumsy; dull awkward; clumsy; dull; inelegant; (polite) my	inferior
simp. and trad. (拙劣)		拙	劣

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuōliè, zhuóliè

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛ ㄌㄧㄝˋ, ㄓㄨㄛˊ ㄌㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyut³ lyut³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): choat-loat / choat-loa̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuōliè
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛ ㄌㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuoliè
    • Wade–Giles: cho¹-lieh⁴
    • Yale: jwō-lyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juolieh
    • Palladius: чжоле (čžole)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ⁵⁵ li̯ɛ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuóliè
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ ㄌㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuóliè
    • Wade–Giles: cho²-lieh⁴
    • Yale: jwó-lyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwolieh
    • Palladius: чжоле (čžole)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ³⁵ li̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyut³ lyut³
    • Yale: jyut lyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyt⁸ lyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: jud³ lüd³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syːt̚³ lyːt̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: choat-loat
    • Tâi-lô: tsuat-luat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zoatload
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡suat̚⁵⁻²⁴ luat̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: choat-loa̍t
    • Tâi-lô: tsuat-lua̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zoatloat
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡suat̚³²⁻⁴ luat̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡suat̚³²⁻⁵ luat̚¹²¹/

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) 拙劣

1. clumsy; inferior; of poor quality; shabby; crude

Synonyms

(deprecated template usage)

• 不善 (bùshàn)
• 不好
• 不妙 (bùmiào)
• 不怎麼樣／不怎么样 (bùzěnmeyàng)
• 不濟／不济 (bùjì)
• 不腆 (bùtiǎn) (Classical Chinese, self-deprecatory)
• 了丁 (Min Nan)
• 低下 (dīxià)
• 低劣 (dīliè)
• 低路 (Min Nan)
• 劣 (literary, or in compounds)
• 垃圾 (lājī) (colloquial)
• 屎 (Cantonese)
• 差 (chà)
• 差勁／差劲 (chàjìn) (colloquial)
• 差氣／差气 (Hokkien)
• 推扳 (¹the-pe) (Shanghainese)
• 梢跤 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 梢跤軟蹄／梢跤软蹄 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 梢蹬 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 欠佳 (qiànjiā)
• 水皮 (seoi² pei⁴) (Cantonese)
• 潮 (cháo) (colloquial, of quality or technique)
• 無良／无良 (wúliáng) (formal)
• 破 (pò) (colloquial)
• 跤梢 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 蹩腳／蹩脚 (biéjiǎo)
• 鄙劣 (bǐliè) (literary)

 

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
拙	劣
せつ Grade: S	れつ Grade: S
on'yomi

Adjectival noun

拙(せつ)劣(れつ) • (setsuretsu) -na (adnominal 拙(せつ)劣(れつ)な (setsuretsu na), adverbial 拙(せつ)劣(れつ)に (setsuretsu ni))

1. poor, inferior

Antonyms

• 優秀(ゆうしゅう) (yūshū, “excellent, superior”)