| 不比 | bù bǐ | unlike |   |
| 不一样 | bù yī yàng | different / distinctive / unlike | |
| 哪像 | nǎ xiàng | unlike / in contrast to | |
| 不肖 | bù xiào | (literary) unlike one's parents / degenerate / unworthy | |
| 土鳖 | tǔ biē | ground beetle / (coll.) professional or entrepreneur who, unlike a 海歸|海归[hai3 gui1], has never studied overseas / (dialect) country bumpkin | |
| 合义复词 | hé yì fù cí | compound word such as 教室[jiao4 shi4] or 國家|国家[guo2 jia1], whose meaning is related to the component hanzi, unlike compounds such as 玫瑰[mei2 gui1] | |
| 一反往常 | yī fǎn wǎng cháng | contrary to usual / unlike what usually happens | |
| 自干五 | zì gān wǔ | (neologism) person who posts online in support of the Chinese government, but unlike a wumao 五毛[wu3 mao2], is not paid for doing so (abbr. for 自帶乾糧的五毛|自带干粮的五毛[zi4 dai4 gan1 liang2 de5 wu3 mao2]) | |
| 树挪死，人挪活 | shù nuó sǐ , rén nuó huó | lit. if moved to a new location, a tree will die, but a person will live (idiom) / fig. human beings, unlike trees, thrive on change | |
