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"fig. pretty woman" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
细腰 細腰 xì yāo slender waist / fig. pretty woman / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin
Chinese Pinyin Translation
不离儿 不離兒 bù lí r not bad / pretty good / pretty close syn
少艾 shào ài young and pretty / pretty girl
姑奶奶 gū nǎi nai paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I / me / this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
标致 標致 biāo zhi (of a woman) beautiful / pretty syn
貌美 mào měi good looks / pretty (e.g. young woman)
姝 shū pretty woman syn
辣妹子 là mèi zi sassy young woman or pretty girl (esp. one from China's spice belt: Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan)
花瓶 huā píng flower vase / (fig.) female employee considered to be just a pretty face (attractive but not very competent) syn
调戏 調戲 tiáo xì to take liberties with a woman / to dally / to assail a woman with obscenities syn
产妇 產婦 chǎn fù woman recuperating after childbirth / woman in childbirth syn
巾帼 巾幗 jīn guó woman / woman's headdress (ancient) syn
女强人 女強人 nǚ qiáng rén successful career woman / able woman syn
慰安妇 慰安婦 wèi ān fù comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 "ianfu")
娉婷 pīng tíng (literary) (of a woman) to have a graceful demeanor / beautiful woman syn
小仙女 xiǎo xiān nǚ girl fairy / beautiful girl or young woman / (neologism) (slang) irrational and egocentric young woman
女杰 女傑 nǚ jié woman of distinction / a woman to be admired or respected syn
婧 jìng (literary) (of a woman) slender / delicate / (literary) (of a woman) talented
剩女 shèng nǚ "leftover woman" (successful career woman who has remained single)
女生外向 nǚ shēng wài xiàng a woman is born to leave her family (idiom) / a woman's heart is with her husband
正妹 zhèng mèi (Tw) beautiful woman / sexy woman
良家女子 liáng jiā nǚ zǐ woman from a respectable family / respectable woman
孤男寡女 gū nán guǎ nǚ a single man and a single woman / bachelors / a man and a woman together (typically in a secluded setting)
异女 異女 yì nǚ (Tw) heterosexual woman / straight woman
雏儿 雛兒 chú ér newly hatched bird / fig. inexperienced person / fig. chick (slighting term for young woman) / bimbo syn
夫唱妇随 夫唱婦隨 fū chàng fù suí fig. the man sings and the woman follows / fig. marital harmony syn
可以 kě yǐ can / may / possible / able to / not bad / pretty good syn
看看 kàn kan to take a look at / to examine / to survey / (coll.) pretty soon syn
不错 不錯 bù cuò correct / right / not bad / pretty good syn
漂亮 piào liang pretty / beautiful syn
长得 長得 zhǎng de to look (pretty, the same etc)
靓丽 靚麗 jìng lì beautiful / pretty
秀丽 秀麗 xiù lì pretty / beautiful syn
清秀 qīng xiù delicate and pretty syn
靓女 靚女 liàng nǚ (dialect) pretty girl syn
俊美 jùn měi pretty / handsome syn
妖艳 妖艷 yāo yàn pretty and flirtatious syn
俏丽 俏麗 qiào lì handsome / pretty syn
俊秀 jùn xiù well-favored / elegant / pretty syn
靓妹 靚妹 liàng mèi pretty girl
小白脸 小白臉 xiǎo bái liǎn attractive young man (usually derog.) / pretty boy / gigolo
娇滴滴 嬌滴滴 jiāo dī dī sweet / cute / delicately pretty syn
眉清目秀 méi qīng mù xiù pretty / with delicate features syn
小家碧玉 xiǎo jiā bì yù pretty daughter in a humble family syn
妖冶 yāo yě pretty and flirtatious syn
八九不离十 八九不離十 bā jiǔ bù lí shí pretty close / very near / about right syn
因陋就简 因陋就簡 yīn lòu jiù jiǎn crude but simple methods (idiom) / use whatever methods you can / to do things simply and thriftily / It's not pretty but it works. syn
倩 qiàn pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old) syn
姣 jiāo cunning / pretty
姱 kuā fascinating / pretty
鬗 màn head ornaments / pretty hair
不大离 不大離 bù dà lí pretty close / just about right / not bad / same as 差不多
美眉 měi méi (coll.) pretty girl
奶油小生 nǎi yóu xiǎo shēng handsome but effeminate man / pretty boy
不明觉厉 不明覺厲 bù míng jué lì although I don't understand it, it seems pretty awesome (Internet slang)
小白 xiǎo bái (slang) novice / greenhorn / (old) (slang) fool / idiot / abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸[xiao3 bai2 lian3], pretty boy
俏美 qiào měi charming / pretty
靓丽 靚麗 liàng lì beautiful / pretty / Taiwan pr. [jing4li4]
天仙 tiān xiān immortal (esp. female) / deity / fairy / Goddess / fig. beautiful woman syn
迎娶 yíng qǔ (of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony / (fig.) to take as one's wife / to marry (a woman) syn
倾国倾城 傾國傾城 qīng guó qīng chéng 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[qing1 cheng2 qing1 guo2] syn
女将 女將 nǚ jiàng female general / (fig.) woman who is a leading figure in her area of expertise syn
花枝招展 huā zhī zhāo zhǎn lit. lovely scene of blossoming plants swaying in the breeze (idiom) / fig. gorgeously dressed (woman) syn
秋波 qiū bō autumn ripples / (fig.) luminous eyes of a woman / amorous glance syn
母老虎 mǔ lǎo hǔ tigress / (fig.) fierce woman / vixen
小媳妇 小媳婦 xiǎo xí fu young married woman / mistress / (fig.) punching bag / (old) child bride
粉黛 fěn dài face powder and eyebrow liner / cosmetics / (fig.) beautiful woman
蛾眉 é méi (fig.) beautiful woman syn
品头论足 品頭論足 pǐn tóu lùn zú lit. to assess the head and discuss the feet (idiom) / minute criticism of a woman's appearance / fig. to find fault in minor details / nitpicking / overcritical syn
春笋 春筍 chūn sǔn springtime bamboo shoots / fig. (of woman's fingers) tender and delicate syn
盐碱地 鹽鹼地 yán jiǎn dì saline soil / (fig.) infertile woman syn
残花败柳 殘花敗柳 cán huā bài liǔ broken flower, withered willow (idiom) / fig. fallen woman
败柳残花 敗柳殘花 bài liǔ cán huā broken flower, withered willow (idiom) / fig. fallen woman
花容月貌 huā róng yuè mào lit. countenance of a flower, face like the moon (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) beautiful
西子捧心 xī zǐ pěng xīn lit. Xishi clasps at her heart (idiom) / fig. a woman who is beautiful even when suffering the pangs of illness
评头论足 評頭論足 píng tóu lùn zú lit. to assess the head and discuss the feet (idiom) / minute criticism of a woman's appearance / fig. to find fault in minor details / to remark upon a person's appearance / nitpicking / overcritical / judgmental syn
倾城倾国 傾城傾國 qīng chéng qīng guó lit. capable of causing the downfall of a city or state (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) devastatingly beautiful syn
女大十八变 女大十八變 nǚ dà shí bā biàn lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom) / fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
妇女能顶半边天 婦女能頂半邊天 fù nǚ néng dǐng bàn biān tiān Woman can hold up half the sky / fig. nowadays, women have an equal part to play in society
老牛吃嫩草 lǎo niú chī nèn cǎo lit. an old cow eats young grass (idiom) / fig. a May-December relationship / a romance where the man is significantly older than the woman
素面朝天 sù miàn cháo tiān lit. to present oneself confidently to the emperor, without makeup (as did the sister of Yang Guifei 楊貴妃|杨贵妃[Yang2 Gui4 fei1]) (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) to show one's natural features, without makeup / to present oneself just as one is, without artifice
鲜花插在牛粪上 鮮花插在牛糞上 xiān huā chā zài niú fèn shàng lit. a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure / fig. a terrible shame (as when a lovely woman marries an odious man)
本尊 běn zūn (Buddhism) yidam (one's chosen meditational deity) / the principal object of worship on a Buddhist altar / (of a monk who has the ability to appear in multiple places at the same time) the honored one himself (contrasted with his alternate forms, 分身[fen1 shen1]) / (fig.) (jocular) the genuine article / the real McCoy / the man himself / the woman herself / the original manifestation of sth (not a spin-off or a clone)
开花 開花 kāi huā to bloom / to blossom / to flower / (fig.) to burst / to split open / (fig.) to burst with joy / (fig.) to spring up everywhere / to flourish syn
热腾腾 熱騰騰 rè téng téng steaming hot / (fig.) bustling / hectic / (fig.) excited / stirred up / (fig.) created only a short time before / freshly minted / hot off the press / (coll.) also pr. [re4 teng1 teng1] syn
鬼扯脚 鬼扯腳 guǐ chě jiǎo lit. ghost pulls your leg / involuntary tug of muscles / fig. very unlucky / fig. argumentative / fig. can't help doing it
外溢 wài yì (of liquid) to spill out / to overflow / (of gas) to leak out / (fig.) to spill over / to spread (to new areas) / (fig.) (of wealth etc) to drain / to flow outward (esp. overseas) / (fig.) (of talent) to show / to be revealed
女人 nǚ rén woman syn
美女 měi nǚ beautiful woman syn
女性 nǚ xìng woman / the female sex syn
人家 rén jiā household / dwelling / family / sb else's house / household business / house of woman's husband-to-be / CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1] syn
女子 nǚ zǐ woman / female syn
老人 lǎo rén old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents syn
温柔 溫柔 wēn róu gentle and soft / tender / sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman) syn
妹妹 mèi mei younger sister / young woman / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
姑娘 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn
妇女 婦女 fù nǚ woman syn
出门 出門 chū mén to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married syn
美人 měi rén beautiful woman / belle syn
太太 tài tai married woman / Mrs. / Madam / wife / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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