不痛不癢 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 不痛不痒 bùtòngbùyǎng ㄅㄨˋ ㄊㄨㄥˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄧㄤˇ lit. doesn't hurt, doesn't tickle (idiom) sth is wrong, but not quite sure what fig. not getting to any matter of substance scratching the surface superficial perfunctory Character by character 不(bù)no 痛(tòng)ache 不(bù)no 癢(yǎng)itch A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0