liè

bad

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
少 meaning component

  Meaning component

shǎoshào

  

few

力 sound component

  Sound component

  

power

Evolution

劣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
劣 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
劣 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
劣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

liè

bad, inferior; slightly; inferior

Most common words with 劣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

恶劣

vile

劣势

inferior

劣质

shoddy

inferior

卑劣

base

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 8.6497% of movies

2220th most common character in movies

1902nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+52A3

Shuowen

“劣,弱也。从力,少聲。”


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