Beautiful in Chinese
beautiful · HSK 1
漂亮
- 漂 to float
- 亮 bright
你的裙子真漂亮。 Your skirt is really pretty.
Other ways to say beautiful
More words with 漂 or 亮
How do you say beautiful in Chinese?
Beautiful in Chinese is 漂亮 (piào liang). You can also say 美 (měi), 美丽 (měi lì), 优美 (yōu měi).
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.