漂亮
piào liang
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Pretty, beautiful, good-looking — of people, clothes, things and places. As a predicate it normally takes 很: 她很漂亮 'she is pretty'. It also praises something done brilliantly: 干得漂亮 'nicely done!'. For a man's good looks Chinese prefers 帅. The second syllable has a neutral tone.
Đẹp, xinh: nói về người, quần áo, đồ vật, phong cảnh. Làm vị ngữ thường có 很: 她很漂亮 (cô ấy rất xinh). Cũng dùng để khen một việc làm rất khéo, rất hay: 干得漂亮 (làm đẹp lắm!). Khen nam giới đẹp trai thì thường dùng 帅. Âm tiết thứ hai đọc thanh nhẹ.
AdjectiveRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 漂 = phiêu · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “漂亮” mean?
Pretty, beautiful, good-looking — of people, clothes, things and places. As a predicate it normally takes 很: 她很漂亮 'she is pretty'. It also praises something done brilliantly: 干得漂亮 'nicely done!'. For a man's good looks Chinese prefers 帅. The second syllable has a neutral tone.
Is “漂亮” formal or informal?
漂亮 is generally neutral.