"Rotten" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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腐败 fǔ bài corruption / to corrupt / to rot / rotten
腐朽 fǔ xiǔ rotten / decayed / decadent / degenerate
破 pò broken / damaged / worn out / lousy / rotten / to break, split or cleave / to get rid of / to destroy / to break with / to defeat / to capture (a city etc) / to expose the truth of
烂 làn soft / mushy / well-cooked and soft / to rot / to decompose / rotten / worn out / chaotic / messy / utterly / thoroughly / crappy / bad
破烂 pò làn worn-out / rotten / dilapidated / tattered / ragged / rubbish / junk
糜烂 mí làn dissipated / rotten / decaying
腐臭 fǔ chòu rotten (smell) / stinking / putrid
腐 fǔ decay / rotten
糟 zāo dregs / draff / pickled in wine / rotten / messy / ruined
朽 xiǔ rotten
糜 mí rice gruel / rotten / to waste (money)
朽烂 xiǔ làn rotten
操蛋 cào dàn lousy / rotten
朽坏 xiǔ huài rotten
肏蛋 cào dàn lousy / rotten
颓朽 tuí xiǔ decaying / rotten / decrepit
朽木 xiǔ mù rotten wood
馊主意 sōu zhǔ yi rotten idea
化腐朽为神奇 huà fǔ xiǔ wéi shén qí lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)
害群之马 hài qún zhī mǎ lit. a horse that brings trouble to its herd (idiom) / fig. troublemaker / black sheep / rotten apple
霉气 méi qì a moldy smell / damp and rotten / fig. rotten bad luck
虫牙 chóng yá caries / rotten tooth (colloquial) / see also 齲齒|龋齿[qu3 chi3]
胔 zì rotten meat / bones of dead animal
枯朽 kū xiǔ withered and rotten
烂账 làn zhàng accounts in a rotten state
烂透 làn tòu rotten to the core
稾 gǎo variant of 槁 / dry / rotten (wood)
粘滑 nián huá slimy (of rotten food) / viscous / stick-slip (in mechanics)
龋蠹 qǔ dù rotten teeth
蜂巢冰 fēng cháo bīng rotten ice
餯 huì (of food) rotten and smelly
黏滑 nián huá slimy (of rotten food) / viscous / stick-slip (in mechanics)
倒血霉 dǎo xuè méi to have rotten luck (stronger version of 倒霉[dao3 mei2])
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