Elegant in Chinese
elegant · HSK 5
优美
- 优 excellent
- 美 beautiful
这首歌的旋律非常优美。 The melody of this song is very beautiful.
Other ways to say elegant
More words with 优 or 美
How do you say elegant in Chinese?
Elegant in Chinese is 优美 (yōu měi). You can also say 精美 (jīng měi), 大方 (dà fang).
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?
Our own 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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