(bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful; (bound form) superior; excellent; (loanword) show (as in 時裝秀|时装秀[shi2 zhuang1 xiu4]); (loanword) to show off; to flaunt (as in 秀廚藝|秀厨艺[xiu4 chu2 yi4]); (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears