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Awesome in Chinese

awesome · HSK 4

厉害 lì hai

  1. 厉 lì severe
  2. 害 hài to harm

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How do you say awesome in Chinese?

Awesome in Chinese is 厉害 (lì hai). You can also say 牛 (niú), 棒 (bàng), 神 (shén).

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.