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 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 女强人 女強人 nǚ qiáng rén successful career woman / able woman syn 标致 標致 biāo zhi (of a woman) beautiful / pretty syn 产妇 產婦 chǎn fù woman recuperating after childbirth / woman in childbirth 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 妖艳 妖艷 yāo yàn pretty and flirtatious syn 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 俏丽 俏麗 qiào lì handsome / pretty syn 巾帼 巾幗 jīn guó woman / woman's headdress (ancient) syn 俊秀 jùn xiù well-favored / elegant / pretty syn 娇滴滴 嬌滴滴 jiāo dī dī sweet / cute / delicately pretty syn 女杰 女傑 nǚ jié woman of distinction / a woman to be admired or respected 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 靓丽 靚麗 jìng lì beautiful / pretty 靓女 靚女 liàng nǚ (dialect) pretty girl syn 貌美 mào měi good looks / pretty (e.g. young woman) 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 细腰 細腰 xì yāo slender waist / fig. pretty woman / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin 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 小家碧玉 xiǎo jiā bì yù pretty daughter in a humble family syn 小仙女 xiǎo xiān nǚ girl fairy / beautiful girl or young woman / (neologism) (slang) irrational and egocentric young woman 倩 qiàn pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old) 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 婧 jìng (literary) (of a woman) slender / delicate / (literary) (of a woman) talented 女 nǚ female / woman / daughter syn 太太 tài tai married woman / Mrs. / Madam / wife / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 姑娘 gū niang girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 妹妹 mèi mei younger sister / young woman / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 女性 nǚ xìng woman / the female sex syn 白人 bái rén white man or woman / Caucasian 美女 měi nǚ beautiful woman syn 阿姨 ā yí maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 女郎 nǚ láng young woman / maiden / girl / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] syn 女子 nǚ zǐ woman / female 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 温柔 溫柔 wēn róu gentle and soft / tender / sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman) syn 老人 lǎo rén old man or woman / the elderly / one's aged parents or grandparents syn 妇女 婦女 fù nǚ woman syn 主妇 主婦 zhǔ fù housewife / woman of senior authority in a household / the lady of the house / hostess syn 粉色 fěn sè pink / white / erotic / beautiful woman / powdered (with make-up) syn 孕妇 孕婦 yùn fù pregnant woman syn 妖精 yāo jing evil spirit / alluring woman syn 淑女 shū nǚ wise and virtuous woman / lady syn 美人 měi rén beautiful woman / belle syn 尤物 yóu wù rarity / rare object / rare person / extraordinarily beautiful woman syn 老太婆 lǎo tài pó old woman (at times contemptuous) syn 献身 獻身 xiàn shēn to commit one's energy to / to devote oneself to / to sacrifice one's life for / (coll.) (of a woman) to give one's virginity to syn 大姐 dà jiě big sister / elder sister / older sister (also polite term of address for a girl or woman slightly older than the speaker) syn 月经 月經 yuè jīng menstruation / a woman's period syn 佳人 jiā rén beautiful woman syn 苗条 苗條 miáo tiao (of a woman) slim / slender / graceful syn 老人家 lǎo rén jiā polite term for old woman or man syn 婆娘 pó niáng woman (derog.) syn 老娘 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife syn 妇人 婦人 fù rén married woman syn 糟蹋 zāo tà to waste / to spoil / to ruin / to wreck / to insult / to humiliate / to defile (a woman) / to rape / also pr. [zao1ta5] syn 老奶奶 lǎo nǎi nai (coll.) father's father's mother / paternal great-grandmother / respectful form of address for an old woman syn 大妈 大媽 dà mā father's elder brother's wife / aunt (affectionate term for an elderly woman) syn 夏娃 xià wá Eve, the first woman (transcription used in Protestant versions of the Bible) (from Hebrew Ḥawwāh, probably via Cantonese 夏娃 {Haa6waa1}) 儿女 兒女 ér nǚ children / sons and daughters / a young man and a young woman (in love) syn 第三者 dì sān zhě sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship / the other woman / the other man / third person / third party (in dispute) / disinterested party / number three in a list syn 女工 nǚ gōng working woman / variant of 女紅|女红[nu:3 gong1] 娘家 niáng jia married woman's parents' home syn 嫁人 jià rén (of a woman) to get married / to take a husband syn 伯母 bó mǔ wife of father's elder brother / aunt / (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 老处女 老處女 lǎo chǔ nǚ unmarried old woman / spinster 身形 shēn xíng figure (esp. a woman's) syn 窈窕 yǎo tiǎo (literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined / comely / (esp.) slender / slim / (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded syn 过门 過門 guò mén to pass through a doorway / (of a woman) to marry / orchestral music interlude in an opera syn 贵妇 貴婦 guì fù upper-class woman / lady (old) syn 红颜 紅顏 hóng yán a beautiful woman / young beauties / youths / rosy cheeks syn 芳心 fāng xīn the affection, or heart, of a young woman 身段 shēn duàn a woman's physique / figure / posture on stage syn 娘子 孃子 niáng zǐ (dialect) form of address for one's wife / polite form of address for a woman syn 凶悍 兇悍 xiōng hàn violent / fierce and tough / shrewish (woman) syn 露点 露點 lù diǎn dew point / (coll.) (of a woman) to expose one of the three areas (nipples and genitals) 大嫂 dà sǎo older brother's wife / sister-in-law / elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) syn 出嫁 chū jià to get married (of woman) syn 野花 yě huā wildflower / woman of easy virtue 闺女 閨女 guī nu: maiden / unmarried woman / daughter syn 母老虎 mǔ lǎo hǔ tigress / (fig.) fierce woman / vixen 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 娘儿们 娘兒們 niáng r men (dialect) woman / wife syn 破鞋 pò xié broken shoes / worn-out footwear / loose woman / slut syn 少妇 少婦 shào fù young married woman syn 揩油 kāi yóu to secretively take advantage of others or public resources for minor personal gain / to grope a woman or girl syn 