Good-looking in Chinese
good-looking · HSK 1
好看
- 好 good
- 看 to look at
你穿这条裙子真好看。 You look really pretty in this skirt.
Other ways to say good-looking
More words with 好 or 看
How do you say good-looking in Chinese?
Good-looking in Chinese is 好看 (hǎo kàn). You can also say 漂亮 (piào liang), 美观 (měi guān), 精神 (jīng shen).
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.