媛 (yuán): used in 嬋媛|婵媛, (bound form) beautiful woman (in practice, often pronounced)
媛 (yuán) is a Chinese character meaning “used in 嬋媛|婵媛.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 女 (semantic) and 爰 (phonetic). It ranks #4018 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 媛 woman. Its radical form 女 (woman) appears in many related characters such as 女 (nǚ, woman), 她 (tā, she), 好 (hǎo, good).
Definitions
- used in 嬋媛|婵媛
- (bound form) beautiful woman (in practice, often pronounced)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 名媛 | míng yuàn | young lady of note |
| 才媛 | cái yuàn | (literary) talented and accomplished woman |
| 佛媛 | fó yuán | Buddhist griftress (female Internet influencer who exploits Buddhist imagery for self-promotion or commercial purposes) |
| 彭丽媛 | péng lì yuán | Peng Liyuan (1962–), PRC folk music singer, wife of Xi Jinping 習近平|习近平 |
| 婵媛 | chán yuán | (literary) (of a woman) graceful |
| 徐熙媛 | xú xī yuán | Barbie Hsu (1976–2025), Taiwanese entertainer, nicknamed 大S[Da4 S] |
媛 appears in 6 compound words: 0 as the first character, 100 as the last, and 0 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 媛 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
四川传媒学院表演学院配音老师 吴舒媛：有一些台词用方言说起来就够味。
sì chuān chuán méi xué yuàn biǎo yǎn xué yuàn pèi yīn lǎo shī wú shū yuán : yǒu yī xiē tái cí yòng fāng yán shuō qǐ lái jiù gòu wèi .
Wu Shuyuan, a voice-over instructor at the School of Performing Arts, Sichuan University of Media and Communication: “Some lines just sound better when spoken in a dialect.”
副攻(4人)：王媛媛、陈厚羽、王奥芊、郭中楠。
fù gōng ( 4 rén ) : wáng yuán yuán , chén hòu yǔ , wáng ào 芊 , guō zhōng nán .
Middle Blockers (4): Wang Yuanyuan, Chen Houyu, Wang Aoqian, Guo Zhongnan.
李媛 摄 近期，烟台蓬莱影视打卡游热度大幅攀升。
lǐ yuán shè jìn qī , yān tái péng lái yǐng shì dǎ kǎ yóu rè dù dà fú pān shēng .
Photo by Li Yuan. Recently, the popularity of film and TV location tours in Penglai, Yantai, has surged significantly.
科学出版社编辑郭媛认为，禁止AI抓取的声明更像一个“君子协定”。
kē xué chū bǎn shè biān jí guō yuán rèn wéi , jìn zhǐ A I zhuā qǔ de shēng míng gèng xiàng yī gè jūn zǐ xié dìng .
Guo Yuan, an editor at Science Press, believes that the statement prohibiting AI scraping is more like a “gentlemen’s agreement.”
Character Family
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