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优秀

yōu xiù 1–4

outstanding; excellent

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
优 · 秀
Syllables
2
yōu xiù
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,689

Part of speech: a

Character by character

  • 优yōu6 strokesHSK 3 traditional 優superior, excellent; actor
  • 秀xiù7 strokesHSK 4ear of grain; flowering, luxuriant; refined, elegant, graceful

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 你是个优秀的记者。

    Nǐ shì gè yōu xiù de jì zhě

    You're an excellent journalist.

  • 他是一个优秀的作家。

    Tā shì yī gè yōu xiù de zuò jiā

    He's an excellent author.

  • 第二优秀是远远不够的。

    Dì èr yōu xiù shì yuǎn yuǎn bù gòu de

    Second best is never enough.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 优秀. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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