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HSK
pretty; beautiful
HSK 2
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  *胜* | 胜* | *胜
victory / success / to beat / to defeat / to surpass / victorious / superior to / to get the better of / better than / surpassing / superb (of vista) / beautiful (scenery) / wonderful (view) / (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear / equal to (a task)
HSK 3
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  *美* | 美* | *美
beautiful / very satisfactory; good / to beautify / to be pleased with oneself
HSK 3
beautiful / fine
HSK 3
beautiful
HSK 3
beautiful woman
HSK 4
sweet-sounding / beautiful (of sound)
HSK 7-9
pretty; beautiful
HSK 7-9
healthy and beautiful / to do fitness exercises / abbr. for 健美運動|健美运动
HSK 7-9
to make more beautiful / to decorate / embellishment
HSK 7-9
beautiful woman; belle
HSK 7-9
pleasing to the eye / beautiful / artistic
HSK 7-9
bright and beautiful
HSK 7-9
beautiful / wonderful / splendid
HSK 7-9
beautiful scenery
HSK 7-9
gorgeous / garish and beautiful
HSK 7-9
moderate wind, beautiful sun (idiom); fine sunny weather, esp. in springtime
HSK 7-9
bright and beautiful
HSK 7-9
lit. burying jade and interring incense (idiom); funeral for a beautiful person
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  *丽* | 丽* | *丽
beautiful
spray (sprig of a plant with blossoms) / cuttlefish (on dining menus) / (literary) beautiful woman
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  *那* | 那* | *那
(archaic) many / beautiful / how / old variant of
(literary) (of a woman) to have a graceful demeanor / beautiful woman
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  *秀* | 秀* | *秀
(bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful / (bound form) superior; excellent / (loanword) show / (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears
limpid autumn waters (trad. description of girl's beautiful eyes)
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  *佳* | 佳* | *佳
beautiful / fine / good
Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.
to put in a good word (for sb) / (literary) beautiful words; elegant expression
hairdressing / to give sb's hair a cut or other beauty treatment / beautiful hair
romance / beautiful scenery / small or petty (of talk etc)
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  *媛* | 媛* | *媛
(bound form) beautiful woman (in practice, often pronounced [yuan2]) / Taiwan pr. [yuan2]
(of a woman) remarkably beautiful; stunning
(literary) beautiful woman / (literary) lovely; graceful / (literary) the moon
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  *娟* | 娟* | *娟
beautiful / graceful
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  *妍* | 妍* | *妍
beautiful
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  *嫙* | 嫙* | *嫙
beautiful / fine
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  *绮* | 绮* | *绮
beautiful / open-work silk
to compete to be the most beautiful or impressive
beautiful; pretty / Taiwan pr. [jing4li4]
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  *璐* | 璐* | *璐
beautiful jade
beautiful and alluring / glamorous / gorgeous
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  *琼* | 琼* | *琼
jasper / fine jade / beautiful / exquisite (e.g. wine, food) / abbr. for Hainan province
immortal (esp. female) / deity / fairy / Goddess / fig. beautiful woman
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  *娥* | 娥* | *娥
good / beautiful
paradise / heavenly or beautiful place / fairyland
a beautiful woman / young beauties / youths / rosy cheeks
to beautify sb's face (with cosmetics etc) / to retouch a photo to make sb look more beautiful / beautiful face / beautified face
face powder and eyebrow liner / cosmetics / (fig.) beautiful woman
rarity / rare object / rare person / extraordinarily beautiful woman
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  *靓* | 靓* | *靓
to make up (one's face) / to dress / (of one's dress) beautiful
fills the eyes (of a beautiful view, scene of desolation etc)
beautiful
beautiful woman
beautiful woman
encounter with a beautiful woman / romance / affair
beautiful hair
beautiful feminine attire / (fig.) young woman
lit. birdsong and fragrant flowers (idiom); fig. the intoxication of a beautiful spring day
mirror (as a metaphor for sth beautiful, bright and flat – such as a lake – or sth that provides clarity and insight)
beautiful
bright and beautiful / (of a landscape) gorgeous / (of a color) vibrant
(of a woman) beautiful; pretty
beautiful image of a woman
scenic lakes and mountain (idiom); beautiful lake and mountain landscape
long sleeves help one dance beautifully (idiom); money and power will help you in any occupation
(of a woman) beautiful but aloof
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  *媄* | 媄* | *媄
beautiful
beautiful silk fabrics / person in beautiful silk dress
Yan and Zhao, two of the Warring States in Hebei and Shanxi / beautiful women / women dancers and singers
court lady / palace maid / traditional painting of beautiful women
elegant / magnificent / exceptionally beautiful
Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth / Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel
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  *珺* | 珺* | *珺
beautiful jade
beautiful / enchanting
beautiful / sweet / engaging
beautiful, expressive eyes
talented man and beautiful woman / ideal couple
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  *姹* | 姹* | *姹
(literary) beautiful
poignant / sad and beautiful
a treat for the eyes / the rare chance of seeing sth beautiful
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  *婺* | 婺* | *婺
beautiful
(of writing, scenery, a woman etc) graceful; elegant; charming; beautiful
lit. beautiful purples and brilliant reds (idiom) / fig. beautiful flowers
lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful / also written 傾城傾國|倾城倾国
a woman's beautiful, thick hair
a beauty / beautiful
tender and beautiful
as a lotus flower breaking the surface (idiom); surpassingly beautiful (of young lady's face or old gentleman's calligraphy)
lit. iris and orchid / fig. exalted sentiments / (expr. of praise for noble character, beautiful surrounding, future prospects etc)
beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
(literary) beautiful adornment (of a woman)
beautiful
beautiful woman / fairy maiden attending the Daoist immortals / (polite) sb else's daughter / Chinese dodder (Cuscuta chinensis), plant whose seeds are used for TCM
lit. countenance of a flower, face like the moon (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) beautiful
bright sun / beautiful day
to enjoy a beautiful spring walk (idiom)
flirtatious / coquettish / sweet and charming / beautiful young woman (old)
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  *鬘* | 鬘* | *鬘
(of woman's hair) beautiful / flower garland worn as an ornament
beautiful and good
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  *媠* | 媠* | *媠
beautiful

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