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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

美人

měirén

beautiful woman; belle

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

beautiful woman; belle

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 美人 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 美人 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你是个美人。nǐ shì gè měi rén。

You're a beautiful woman.

她是一位真正的美人。tā shì yī wèi zhēn zhèng de měi rén。

She is a real beauty.

她长大后一定会是个美人。tā zhǎng dà hòu yí dìng huì shì gè měi rén。

She will be a beauty when she grows up.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 美人.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 美人.

Directly before

  • 个美人2
  • 的美人1
  • 一个美人1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 美人

What does 美人 mean in Chinese?

美人 (měirén) means beautiful woman; belle.

How do you pronounce 美人?

美人 is pronounced měirén.

Is 美人 an HSK word?

美人 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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