艳
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bright; fresh and attractive; glamorous; (bound form) amorous; romantic; (literary) to admire; to envy
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 色 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 艳
- Common rank
- #1,725
- Unicode
- U+8273
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Words with 艳
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 艳阳天 | bright sunny day; blazing hot day | |
| 艳红色 | crimson | |
| 艳如桃李 | lit. beautiful as peach and prune; fig. radiant beauty | |
| 光艳 | bright and colorful; gorgeous | |
| 艳色 | beauty; glamor; voluptuousness | |
| 美艳 | beautiful and alluring; glamorous; gorgeous | |
| 艳情 | romantic love; romance; erotic (novel etc) | |
| 香艳 | alluring; erotic; romantic | |
| 艳福 | luck with women | |
| 粉艳 | delicate colors (of a woman's complexion, a flower etc) | |
| 冷艳 | (of a woman) beautiful but aloof | |
| 艳照 | nude picture | |
| 红艳艳 | brilliant red | |
| 惊艳 | variant of 驚豔|惊艳[jing1 yan4] | |
| 惊艳 | very impressed; stunned; amazed; to astonish; to impress greatly | |
| 艳舞 | erotic dance | |
| 艳丽 | gorgeous; garish and beautiful | |
| 鲜艳 | variant of 鮮豔|鲜艳[xian1 yan4] | |
| 鲜艳 | bright-colored; gaily-colored | |
| 秦淮八艳 | the famous eight beautiful and talented courtesans who lived near the Qinhuai River 秦淮河[Qi… |