Ugly in Chinese
ugly · HSK 3
难看
- 难 difficult
- 看 to look at
这件衣服的颜色太难看了。 The color of this piece of clothing is really ugly.
Other ways to say ugly
More words with 难 or 看
How do you say ugly in Chinese?
Ugly in Chinese is 难看 (nán kàn). You can also say 丑 (chǒu).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.