"Pretty" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 piào liang pretty / beautiful
 jìng lì beautiful / pretty
 xiù lì pretty / beautiful
 biāo zhi beautiful (of woman) / pretty
 jùn měi pretty / handsome
 qiào lì handsome / pretty
 mào měi good looks / pretty (e.g. young woman)
 jùn xiù well-favored / elegant / pretty
 méi qīng mù xiù pretty / with delicate features
 qiàn pretty / winsome / to ask for sb's help / son-in-law (old)
 jiāo cunning / pretty
 kuā fascinating / pretty
 qiào měi charming / pretty
 liàng lì beautiful / pretty / Taiwan pr. [jing4 li4]
 kě yǐ can / may / possible / able to / not bad / pretty good
 kàn kan to take a look at / to examine / to survey / (coll.) pretty soon
 bù cuò correct / right / not bad / pretty good
 qīng xiù delicate and pretty
 huā píng flower vase / fig. just a pretty face / CL:對|对[dui4]
 liàng nu:3 (dialect) pretty girl
 yāo yàn pretty and flirtatious
 liàng mèi pretty girl
 xiǎo bái liǎn attractive young man (usually derog.) / pretty boy / gigolo
 xì yāo slender waist / fig. pretty woman / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin
 jiāo dī dī sweet / cute / delicately pretty
 xiǎo jiā bì yù pretty daughter in a humble family
 yāo yě pretty and flirtatious
 bā jiǔ bù lí shí pretty close / very near / about right
 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.
 shū pretty woman
 měi méi (coll.) pretty girl
 bù lí r not bad / pretty good / pretty close
 màn head ornaments / pretty hair
 bù dà lí pretty close / just about right / not bad / same as 差不多
 nǎi yóu xiǎo shēng handsome but effeminate man / pretty boy
 bù míng jué lì although I don't understand it, it seems pretty awesome (Internet slang)
 lì zhì gē ugly guy with a pretty girlfriend (slang)
 là mèi zi sassy young woman or pretty girl (esp. one from China's spice belt: Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan)
 xiǎo bái (slang) novice / greenhorn / (old) (slang) fool / idiot / abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸[xiao3 bai2 lian3], pretty boy
 shào ài young and pretty / pretty girl
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