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不肖
bù​xiào

degenerate

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
不肖 bù​xiào
degenerate
(literary) unlike one's parents; used to describe a child with poor character or one who fails to live up to their ancestors' example
worthless
unworthy or incompetent; lacking talent or virtue

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.120 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.642 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)