出入 | chū rù | to go out and come in / entrance and exit / expenditure and income / discrepancy / inconsistent | |
不符 | bù fú | inconsistent / not in agreement with / not agree or tally with / not conform to | |
自相矛盾 | zì xiāng máo dùn | to contradict oneself / self-contradictory / inconsistent | |
出尔反尔 | chū ěr fǎn ěr | old: to reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius) / modern: to go back on one's word / to blow hot and cold / to contradict oneself / inconsistent | |
诡 | guǐ | sly / crafty / weird / bizarre / contradictory / inconsistent | |
不一致字 | bù yī zhì zì | (orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. "through", "bough" and "rough", where "-ough" is not pronounced the same in each case) / inconsistent characters (e.g. 流[liu2], 梳[shu1] and 毓[yu4], which are pronounced differently from each other even though they all have the same notional phonetic component) | |
满拧 | mǎn nǐng | totally inconsistent / completely at odds |