"Shabby" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 破旧 | pò jiù | shabby |   |
| 褴褛 | lán lu:3 | ragged / shabby | |
| 败絮 | bài xù | ruined / broken down / shabby | |
| 敝 |  bì | my (polite) / poor / ruined / shabby / worn out / defeated | |
| 破敝 | pò bì | shabby / damaged | |
| 砢碜 | kē chen | ugly / unsightly / shabby / to humiliate / to ridicule | |
| 破案 | pò àn | to solve a case / shabby old table | |
| 穷酸 | qióng suān | (of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic / impoverished pedant | |
| 破瓦寒窑 | pò wǎ hán yáo | lit. broken tiles, cold hearth / fig. a broken-down house / poor and shabby dwelling | |
| 金玉其外，败絮其中 | jīn yù qí wài , bài xù qí zhōng | gilded exterior, shabby and ruined on the inside (idiom) | |
| 金玉其表，败絮其中 | jīn yù qí biǎo , bài xù qí zhōng | gilded exterior, shabby and ruined on the inside (idiom) | |
| 穷酸相 | qióng suān xiàng | wretched look / shabby looks | |
| 老牛破车 | lǎo niú pò chē | lit. old ox pulling a shabby cart (idiom) / fig. slow and inefficient | |
