妍媸

yánchī
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 beauty and ugliness
  2. 2 the beautiful and the ugly

Examples

HSK 4
镜子照得出妍媸,却照不出人心。
Jìngzi zhàodechū yánchī, què zhàobuchū rénxīn.
A mirror can show beauty and ugliness, but not what is in a person's heart.
HSK 6
Píngjià yí ge rén, bù néng zhǐ kàn wàibiǎo de yánchī.
You can't judge a person only by whether they look beautiful or ugly.

Tips

usage
A literary pair: 妍 "beautiful" plus 媸 "ugly". Everyday Chinese says 美 and 丑 instead. It often follows a verb of judging, as in 不辨妍媸 "unable to tell beauty from ugliness".

Stroke Order

妍 yán
媸 chī