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 小子 xiǎo zi (coll.) boy / (derog.) joker / guy / (despicable) fellow syn 男孩 nán hái boy / CL:個|个[ge4] 男生 nán shēng schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male) 老弟 lǎo dì (affectionate form of address for a male who is not very much younger than oneself) my boy / old pal syn 男孩子 nán hái zi boy 好家伙 hǎo jiā huo my God! / oh boy! / man! syn 花瓶 huā píng flower vase / (fig.) female employee considered to be just a pretty face (attractive but not very competent) syn 童子 tóng zǐ boy syn 小儿 小兒 xiǎo r (coll.) early childhood / baby boy syn 标致 標致 biāo zhi (of a woman) beautiful / pretty syn 男儿 男兒 nán ér a (real) man / boy / son syn 男童 nán tóng boy / male child syn 牛郎 niú láng cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute syn 通讯员 通訊員 tōng xùn yuán correspondent / reporter / messenger boy syn 俊美 jùn měi pretty / handsome syn 秀丽 秀麗 xiù lì pretty / beautiful syn 八九不离十 八九不離十 bā jiǔ bù lí shí pretty close / very near / about right syn 黄花 黃花 huáng huā yellow flowers (of various types) / chrysanthemum / cauliflower / (yellow) daylily / a young virgin (boy or girl) syn 妖艳 妖艷 yāo yàn pretty and flirtatious syn 牧童 mù tóng shepherd boy syn 俏丽 俏麗 qiào lì handsome / pretty syn 俊秀 jùn xiù well-favored / elegant / pretty syn 娇滴滴 嬌滴滴 jiāo dī dī sweet / cute / delicately pretty syn 清秀 qīng xiù delicate and pretty syn 眉清目秀 méi qīng mù xiù pretty / with delicate features syn 长得 長得 zhǎng de to look (pretty, the same etc) 妖冶 yāo yě pretty and flirtatious syn 马前卒 馬前卒 mǎ qián zú lackey / errand boy / lit. runner before a carriage syn 靓丽 靚麗 jìng lì beautiful / pretty 靓女 靚女 liàng nǚ (dialect) pretty girl syn 小弟弟 xiǎo dì di little brother / little boy / (coll.) penis 貌美 mào měi good looks / pretty (e.g. young woman) 靓妹 靚妹 liàng mèi pretty girl 细腰 細腰 xì yāo slender waist / fig. pretty woman / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin 新丁 xīn dīng new addition to a family (i.e. a birth) / a boy who has just come of age / (in a job etc) newcomer / novice 球童 qiú tóng ball boy (tennis) / caddie (golf) 小皇帝 xiǎo huáng dì child emperor / (fig.) spoiled child / spoiled boy / pampered only child 小家碧玉 xiǎo jiā bì yù pretty daughter in a humble family syn 幼齿 幼齒 yòu chǐ (Tw) naive and innocent (girl or boy) / underage prostitute (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [iù-khí]) 束发 束髮 shù fà to tie up one's hair / (literary) (of a boy) to be in one's adolescence (in ancient China, boys tied up their hair) 校草 xiào cǎo the most handsome boy in the school (see also 校花[xiao4 hua1]) 耳鬓厮磨 耳鬢廝磨 ěr bìn sī mó lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom) / fig. (of a boy and a girl) to play together often during childhood syn 桃太郎 táo tài láng Momotaro or Peach Boy, the hero of a Japanese folk tale / (Tw) Japanese person 倩 qiàn pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old) syn 花童 huā tóng page boy / flower girl (at a wedding) 僮 tóng servant boy 姝 shū pretty woman syn 姣 jiāo cunning / pretty 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 娈童 孌童 luán tóng catamite (boy as homosexual partner) / kept man / gigolo 美眉 měi méi (coll.) pretty girl 门童 門童 mén tóng doorman / bell boy 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 小白 xiǎo bái (slang) novice / greenhorn / (old) (slang) fool / idiot / abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸[xiao3 bai2 lian3], pretty boy 半大小子 bàn dà xiǎo zǐ teenage boy / adolescent boy 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 不明觉厉 不明覺厲 bù míng jué lì although I don't understand it, it seems pretty awesome (Internet slang) 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) 俏美 qiào měi charming / pretty 靓丽 靚麗 liàng lì beautiful / pretty / Taiwan pr. [jing4li4] 僮仆 僮僕 tóng pú boy servant 放羊娃 fàng yáng wá shepherd / shepherd boy 正太 zhèng tài young, cute boy / derived from Japanese loanword shotacon 正太控[zheng4 tai4 kong4] 男孩乐队 男孩樂隊 nán hái yuè duì boy band (type of pop group) 童儿 童兒 tóng ér boy 聘娶婚 pìn qǔ hūn formal betrothal (in which the boy's family sends presents to the girl's family) 阿兵哥 ā bīng gē (coll.) soldier boy 世界童子军总部 世界童子軍總部 Boy Scouts World Bureau 哈利・波特 hā lì · bō tè Harry Potter, boy wizard in the novels by J.K. Rowling 羅琳|罗琳 仆欧 僕歐 pú ōu (old) waiter (loanword from "boy") / attendant 妈宝 媽寶 mā bǎo mama's boy 小寿星 小壽星 xiǎo shòu xīng child whose birthday is being celebrated / birthday boy / birthday girl 班草 bān cǎo the most handsome boy in the class 男娃 nán wá (dialect) boy / guy 哈利·波特 hā lì · bō tè Harry Potter, boy wizard in the novels by J.K. Rowling 羅琳|罗琳 小毛头 小毛頭 xiǎo máo tou (coll.) new-born baby / young boy 乖乖牌 guāi guāi pái good little boy (or girl) 酸儿辣女 酸兒辣女 suān ér là nǚ if a woman likes to eat sour during pregnancy, she will have a boy / if she likes to eat spicy, she will have a girl (idiom) 小哥哥 xiǎo gē ge little boy who is older than another young child (e.g. his playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) amiable form of address for a young man of about one's own age or a little older 指腹为婚 指腹為婚 zhǐ fù wéi hūn to propose the future marriage of two unborn babies on condition that one turns out to be a boy, and the other, a girl (idiom) 冠礼 冠禮 guàn lǐ the capping ceremony, a Confucian coming of age ceremony for males dating from pre-Qin times, performed when a boy reaches the age of 20, involving the ritual placing of caps on the head of the young man 弄璋 nòng zhāng (literary) to have a baby boy / to celebrate the birth of a son 朘 脧 zuī (literary) young boy’s penis 