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不利

bùlì
adjectiveHSK 5

“Unfavorable” in Chinese is 不利 (bùlì).

Meaning

  • unfavorable
  • disadvantageous
  • harmful
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  • detrimental

Example

吃肉对环境不利。

Eating meat is bad for the environment.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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Not to be confused with: 不理 (bù lǐ, to refuse to acknowledge)