鄙劣

Chinese

		rustic; low; base rustic; low; base; mean	inferior
trad. (鄙劣)		鄙	劣
simp. ^#(鄙劣)		鄙	劣

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bǐliè

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˇ ㄌㄧㄝˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): pei² lyut³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bǐliè
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˇ ㄌㄧㄝˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bǐliè
  - Wade–Giles: pi³-lieh⁴
  - Yale: bǐ-lyè
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biilieh
  - Palladius: биле (bile)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯ɛ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: pei² lyut³
  - Yale: péi lyut
  - Cantonese Pinyin: pei² lyt⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: péi² lüd³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯³⁵ lyːt̚³/

Adjective

鄙劣

(literary, of knowledge, experience, etc.) meager; mean; shallow
(literary) poor; inferior; substandard; low-grade
(literary) mean; base; despicable; nasty

Synonyms

(meager):

泛泛 (fànfàn)
浮泛 (fúfàn)
浮淺 / 浮浅 (fúqiǎn)
浮蕩 / 浮荡 (fúdàng)
淺薄 / 浅薄 (qiǎnbó)
淺陋 / 浅陋 (qiǎnlòu)
漂浮 (piāofú)
皮相 (píxiàng) (literary)
膚淺 / 肤浅 (fūqiǎn)
虛浮 / 虚浮 (xūfú)
虛飄 / 虚飘 (xūpiāo)
譾陋 / 谫陋 (jiǎnlòu) (literary)
飄浮 / 飘浮 (piāofú)

(poor):

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)
拙劣 (zhuōliè)
推扳 (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)

(mean):

卑劣 (bēiliè)
卑鄙
醜陋 / 丑陋 (chǒulòu)
骯髒 / 肮脏
齷齪 / 龌龊 (wòchuò)

Pronoun

鄙劣

(literary, humble) I; me

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鄙	劣
ひ Hyōgai	れつ Grade: S
on'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 鄙劣 – see the following entry.

【卑劣ひれつ】

[adjective] mean, despicable, dirty, vile, ignoble

[noun] meanness

(This term, 鄙劣, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)