a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical); scholar; skillful writer; fine talent
Characters in this word
2秀
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
(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
- Pinyin
- xiù
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 4692 of 2500
才
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
ability; talent, sb of a certain type, a capable individual, then and only then, just now, (before an expression of quantity) only, (emphatic, esp. in contrast or correction) really; actually
- Pinyin
- cái
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 134 of 2500