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不肖

bù xiào

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

不肖 (bù xiào) means "unlike one's parents; degenerate; unworthy". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 不肖 means

1. literaryunlike one's parents
2. degenerate
3. unworthy

The characters in 不肖

• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 肖xiàosimilar; resembling; to resemble

Sounds the same

Read bù xiào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 不孝unfilial

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