Excellent in Chinese
excellent · HSK 4
优秀
- 优 excellent
- 秀 elegant
Other ways to say excellent
More words with 优 or 秀
How do you say excellent in Chinese?
Excellent in Chinese is 优秀 (yōu xiù). You can also say 优良 (yōu liáng), 妙 (miào), 高超 (gāo chāo), 优异 (yōu yì).
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.