媚 (mèi): (bound form) to flatter, (bound form) charming
媚 (mèi) is a Chinese character meaning “(bound form) to flatter.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 女 (semantic) and 眉 (phonetic). It ranks #2232 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 媚 woman. Its radical form 女 (woman) appears in many related characters such as 女 (nǚ, woman), 奶 (nǎi, grandmother, milk), 她 (tā, she).
Definitions
- (bound form) to flatter
- (bound form) charming
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 明媚adjective | míng mèi | bright and beautiful |
| 妩媚adjective | wǔ mèi | lovely |
| 谄媚verb | chǎn mèi | to flatter |
| 献媚verb | xiàn mèi | to ingratiate oneself with |
| 娇媚adjective | jiāo mèi | flirtatious |
| 柔媚adjective | róu mèi | gentle and lovely |
| 媚俗verb | mèi sú | to cater to the public's taste |
| 妖媚adjective | yāo mèi | seductive |
| 春光明媚phrase | chūn guāng míng mèi | lovely spring sunshine |
| 阳光明媚phrase | yáng guāng míng mèi | the sun shines brightly (idiom) |
| 伊媚儿 | yī mèi r | variant of 伊妹兒|伊妹儿 |
| 媚外verb | mèi wài | to fawn on foreigners |
| 崇洋媚外phrase | chóng yáng mèi wài | to revere everything foreign and pander to overseas powers (idiom) |
| 媚世verb | mèi shì | (literary) to pander to popular tastes |
| 媚眼noun | mèi yǎn | charming eyes |
媚 appears in 25 compound words: 40 as the first character, 40 as the last, and 20 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 媚 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (5)
Example Sentences
这位媚士穿着得体，举止优雅大方。
zhè wèi mèi shì chuān zhe dé tī , jǔ zhǐ yōu yǎ dà fāng .
This gentleman was impeccably dressed and carried himself with grace and poise.
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tóng dé shì ( jí tuán ) ( 0 0 5 1 8 ) : lǐ xiào mèi huò wěi rèn wéi tí míng wěi yuán huì chéng yuán
Tongdeshi (Group) (00518): Li Xiaomei Appointed as Member of the Nomination Committee
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Character Family
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