"Mediocre" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 平凡 | píng fán | commonplace / ordinary / mediocre |   |
| 平庸 | píng yōng | mediocre / indifferent / commonplace | |
| 中路 | zhōng lù | midway / mediocre (quality) / midfield (soccer) | |
| 平平 | píng píng | average / mediocre | |
| 较差 | jiào chà | mediocre / rather poor / not specially good | |
| 中庸 | zhōng yōng | golden mean (Confucianism) / (literary) (of person) mediocre / ordinary | |
| 庸碌 | yōng lù | mediocre | |
| 不过尔尔 | bù guò ěr ěr | not more than so-so (idiom) / mediocre / nothing out of the ordinary | |
| 普普通通 | pǔ pǔ tōng tōng | ordinary / mediocre / nothing special | |
| 庸庸碌碌 | yōng yōng lù lù | ordinary / mediocre | |
| 凡庸 | fán yōng | ordinary / mediocre | |
| 碌碌无为 | lù lù wú wéi | unaccomplished / mediocre / feckless | |
| 平淡无奇 | píng dàn wú qí | ordinary and mediocre (idiom) / nothing to write home about | |
| 庸人 | yōng rén | mediocre person | |
| 驽马恋栈 | nú mǎ liàn zhàn | lit. a worn-out horse is reluctant to leave the stable (idiom) / fig. a mediocre worker clings to a good position | |
| 矮子里拔将军 | ǎi zi li bá jiāng jūn | lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs / fig. choose the best person available (out of a mediocre bunch) | |
| 庸碌无能 | yōng lù wú néng | mediocre and incompetent | |
| 不甘于 | bù gān yú | unwilling to accept / not content with (a subservient role, a mediocre result etc) | |
| 学渣 | xué zhā | (coll.) unenthusiastic, mediocre student / underachiever | |
