秀 (xiù) means Handsome (elegant). Below are 5 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他是一名优 秀 的学生。
Tā shì yì míng yōuxiù de xuésheng.
He is an outstanding student.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 优秀
这个班的成绩很优 秀 。
Zhège bān de chéngjì hěn yōuxiù.
This class has excellent results.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 优秀
优 秀 的传统应该继承下去。
Yōuxiù de chuántǒng yīnggāi jìchéng xiàqù.
Fine traditions should be carried on.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 继承
学校奖励了成绩优 秀 的学生。
Xuéxiào jiǎnglì le chéngjì yōuxiù de xuésheng.
The school rewarded the students with excellent results.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 奖励
他获得了全国优 秀 教师的称号。
Tā huòdé le quánguó yōuxiù jiàoshī de chēnghào.
He was given the title of national outstanding teacher.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 称号
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How is 秀 used in a sentence?
This page shows 5 sentences using 秀 (xiù, "Handsome (elegant)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 秀 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 秀 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
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The dictionary page for 秀 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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