Amazing in Chinese
amazing · HSK 4
厉害
- 厉 severe
- 害 to harm
Other ways to say amazing
More words with 厉 or 害
How do you say amazing in Chinese?
Amazing in Chinese is 厉害 (lì hai). You can also say 了不起 (liǎo bu qǐ), 惊人 (jīng rén), 神奇 (shén qí), 牛 (niú).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.